NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: PRW), a Company “Advancing Drugs Through Glycoscience®”, today announced it has organized and is sponsoring “A Special Symposium on Galectins: Structures, Functions and Therapeutic Targets,” as part of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 234th Annual Meeting, to be held in Boston, August 19-23, 2007. Chairing the two-day Symposium are the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, David Platt, Ph.D.; Chief Scientist, Anatole Klyosov, Ph.D., D.Sc, and Zbigniew J. Witczak, Ph.D., member of the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board and former chair of the ACS’ Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry.
