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Aeterna Zentaris Announces NIH Grant for a Phase 1/2 Study in Advanced Prostate Cancer with AEZS-108
Date:8/5/2010

Grant awarded to Dr. Jacek Pinski to conduct the study at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Southern California

QUÉBEC CITY, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (TSX: AEZ; Nasdaq: AEZS), (the "Company"), a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrine therapy, today announced that the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") has awarded Dr. Jacek Pinski, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, a grant of about US$1.5 million over three years to conduct a Phase 1/2 study in refractory prostate cancer with the Company's doxorubicin LHRH receptor targeted conjugate compound, AEZS-108. The study, entitled "A Phase I/II Trial of AN-152 (AEZS-108) in Castration- and Taxane-Resistant Prostate Cancer", will enroll up to 55 patients and will be conducted in two portions: the first portion will be an abbreviated dose-escalation followed by a single arm, Simon Optimum two-stage design Phase 2 study using the dose selected in the Phase 1 portion. The primary objective of the Phase 2 portion is to evaluate the clinical benefit of AEZS-108 in men with castration- and taxane-resistant metastatic prostate cancer, for which the presence of LHRH receptors has been confirmed.

Juergen Engel, Ph.D., President and CEO of Aeterna Zentaris commented, "We congratulate Dr. Pinski for the grant awarded by the NIH and we are very pleased to initiate this collaboration for AEZS-108. We are excited about this study since we believ
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