SEATTLE, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTAX: CTIC) today reported recent accomplishments and financial results for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2007.
Recent Events
-- Announced agreement to acquire ZEVALIN(R) (ibritumomab tiuxetan), the
first FDA-approved radioimmunotherapy, from Biogen Idec; this
acquisition, if completed, will return CTI to a select group of only a
few biotech companies which market and sell a commercial product
-- Announced a potential abbreviated registration path for pixantrone
based on the Company's decision to do a full analysis of the EXTEND
(PIX301) phase III clinical trial for patients with relapsed,
aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), which is targeted for data
release in mid-2008
-- Added brostallicin, a novel phase II cancer drug candidate to CTI's
portfolio through its acquisition of Systems Medicine Inc., a privately
held company connected with the Translational Genomics Research
Institute
-- Added Richard L. Love, former founder and CEO of Triton Biosciences
Inc. and ILEX Oncology, Inc. to its board of directors
-- Received special protocol assessment (SPA) approval of and launched a
phase III clinical trial, known as PIX303, of pixantrone for patients
with indolent NHL who have relapsed following first-line therapy
-- Received SPA approval of and launched a confirmatory phase III clinical
trial, known as PGT307, of XYOTAX(TM) (paclitaxel poliglumex, CT-2103)
in combination with carboplatin for women with pre-menopausal estrogen
levels who have advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
"Our acquisition of Systems Medicine, Inc. and our proposed acquisition
of ZEVALIN, coupled with progress on advancing XYOTAX toward a first half
2008 marketing application submission a
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