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Verastem Oncology wins $3.8M PanCAN Therapeutic Accelerator Award

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The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network awarded the first PanCAN Therapeutic Accelerator Award to Verastem Oncology to evaluate their investigational treatments, VS-6766 and defactinib, in an early-stage (phase Ib/II) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma clinical trial. 

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