LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp., (NASDAQ: SNTA) a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing small molecule drugs to treat severe medical conditions, today announced that survival and sub-population data from the Phase 2b clinical trial in metastatic melanoma of the Company’s lead oncology drug candidate, STA-4783, will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. In this double-blind, randomized, multi-center trial, patients treated with STA-4783 in combination with paclitaxel were compared with patients treated with paclitaxel alone. All patients had stage IV metastatic melanoma.
