September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, a time when the medical community will gather with the patient population in the hopes of advancing research in this significant unmet medical need. One company, ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals [NYSE: ANX], is attempting to engage the investor community and the sector’s most promising drug developers through the First Annual Sickle Cell Disease Therapeutics Conference, taking place September 19th, 2012 in New York City.
ADVENTRX Completes Acquisition of SynthRx
ADVENTRX and SynthRx, a private biotechnology company, completed a definitive merger on April 8, 2011.
ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Takes the Next Step In Approval of ANX-530
ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ANX), with its leading innovations in anti-cancer drug development has just announced that they have been successful in sending their ANX-530 (Exelbine) New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of September 1, 2011.