Galera Therapeutics completes acquisition of Nova Pharmaceuticals
“Dismutase Mimetics and NOS inhibitors involve complementary pathways that play important roles in cancer, in the tumor microenvironment, in resistance to conventional chemoradiotherapy and in immuno-oncology,” said Mel Sorensen, M.D., President & CEO of Galera. “Substantial mechanistic and preclinical rationale for both agents in solid tumors, especially in breast cancer, has been generated by the companies and their collaborators. Both product candidates are in clinical stage development, having been well-characterized in many patients both in oncologic and non-oncologic indications. Galera has decided to focus its near-term development on the hardest-to-treat subsets of advanced breast cancer.”
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