Compugen Ltd. Discovers Peptide Drug Candidate for Treatment of Solid Tumor Cancers and Announces Positive In Vivo Results

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN - News) today announced that its proprietary DAC Blockers Discovery Platform has led to the discovery of CGEN-25008, a novel peptide antagonist of the Clusterin protein. Compugen also announced that recently analyzed in vitro and initial in vivo results from cell-based assays and a lung cancer mouse model indicate that CGEN-25008 reduces the growth rate of several cancer cell lines and significantly enhances the anti-cancer activity of Taxol™, a frequently used cancer chemotherapeutic drug.

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