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Article: ASTELLAS, MEDIVATION TO DEVELOP, COMMERCIALIZE MDV3100 FOR TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER

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November 5, 2009
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4 -- The University of California at Los Angeles issued the following press release:

Astellas Pharma Inc. of Japan and California's Medivation Inc. have announced a global agreement to develop and commercialize MDV3100, a chemical compound developed in UCLA science laboratories that is now Medivation's investigational drug for the treatment of prostate cancer.

MDV3100 is currently being evaluated in the Phase 3 AFFIRM clinical trial in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer who were previously treated with docetaxel-based chemotherapy.

Michael Jung, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and his ...

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