AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plus Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTV) (the "Company"), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing targeted radiotherapeutics with advanced platform technologies for central nervous system cancers, today announced that the Company will present data from its ReSPECT-LM clinical trial evaluating the Company's lead radiotherapeutic, rhenium (186Re) obisbemeda, for the treatment of leptomeningeal metastases at the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Innovations in Cancer Prevention and Research Conference VI. The conference is taking place October 2-3, 2023, in Galveston, Tex. The poster presentation is titled, Report of Phase 1 Part A of the ReSPECT-LM Trial: Rhenium (186Re) Obisbemeda (186RNL) in Leptomeningeal Metastases (LM).
The presentation will be showcased during the Poster Session on October 3, beginning at 7:00 a.m. A copy of the poster will be made available under the Presentations tab of the Investors section of the Company's website following the meeting at https://ir.plustherapeutics.com.
In August 2023, Plus Therapeutics received an advance payment of grant funds of approximately $1.9 million, as planned, as part of its overall $17.6 million award contract, which CPRIT executed in September 2022. The contract provides for funding from CPRIT over the three-year grant period starting on August 31, 2022, and follows the expected increase of development costs as the ReSPECT-LM clinical trial progresses to later stages.
About Plus Therapeutics
Plus Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing targeted radiotherapeutics for difficult-to-treat cancers of the central nervous system with the potential to enhance clinical outcomes for patients. Combining image-guided local beta radiation and targeted drug delivery approaches, the Company is advancing a pipeline of product candidates with lead programs in recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) and ...