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Rexahn Pharma (RNN) Receives USPTO Notice of Allowance for Patent Related to RX-3117

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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Receives a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a Patent Covering the Manufacturing of RX-3117 – A Cancer Cell Specific Anticancer Agent

October 31, 2016 9:00 AM EDT

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 31, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: RNN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a patent for claims related to the synthesis of its novel anti-cancer investigational drug candidate, RX-3117. RX-3117 is currently in stage 2 of a Phase Ib/IIa clinical trial in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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