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Astex Pharmaceuticals™ is a leader in innovative drug discovery, development and commercialization, committed to the fight against cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

• Fiscal strength with significant cash, ongoing revenues and potential milestone payments
• Productive partnerships with top-tier pharmaceutical companies
• Rich product portfolio with multiple drugs in clinical development
• Visionary leadership backed by a world-class management team

We are a leader in innovative small-molecule therapeutics with particular expertise in fragment-based drug discovery, the most important advance in discovery chemistry in the last 20 years. Our primary areas of focus are oncology and hematology.

We are a publicly traded pharmaceutical company with strong cash reserves and royalty revenues from the sales of our product DACOGEN®. In addition, our partnerships could deliver nearly $2 billion in product milestones plus royalties.