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 preclinical results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 101st Annual Meeting that support correlative markers for elesclomol anti-cancer activity. In addition, results were presented by Synta collaborators showing that elesclomol demonstrates activity in cisplatin-resistant lung cancer models.