ROCKVILLE, Md., March 18, 2015 (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 Vikas Sharma, Ph.D., the Company's Director of Business Development, will present at the 12th Annual BIO Asia International Conference in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 11:15 AM. (Japan Time). The conference is being held on March 24 to 25, 2015 at the Grand Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan.
The 12th Annual BIO Asia International Conference is an exclusive, customized partnering forum that brings together U.S. and European drug development companies with Asian biotech and pharmaceutical companies interested in research collaborations and licensing agreements.
About Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Rexahn currently has three clinical stage oncology candidates, Archexin®, RX-3117, and Supinoxin™ (RX-5902) and a robust pipeline of preclinical compounds to treat multiple types of cancer. Rexahn has also developed proprietary drug discovery platform technologies in the areas of Nano-Polymer-Drug Conjugate Systems (NPDCS), CPMA, 3D-GOLD, and TIMES. For more information, please visit www.rexahn.com.
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