Rochester, NY 9/2/2009 12:16:04 AM
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CRXX CombinatoRx, Incorporated Up 18.26% on Good Volume

CRXX CombinatoRx, Incorporated

Last Trade:    1.75
Day's Range:    1.50 - 1.92
Volume:    1,563,752
Change:    Up 0.2702 (18.26%)

CRXX CombinatoRx, Incorporated., a biopharmaceutical company, A subsidiary of Clinical Data Inc. and CombinatoRx Inc. have signed a licensing agreement valued at up to $257 million in milestone and royalty payments.  The collaboration deal calls for Newton, Mass.-based Clinical Data (Nasdaq: CLDA) to license its multiple myeloma treatment, adenosine A2A agonist ATL313, to CombinatoRx. In return, Cambridge, Mass.-based CombinatoRx (Nasdaq: CRXX) will handle preclinical and clinical development of the treatment for B-cell malignancies. Clinical Data also can exercise a co-development option following Phase 2a study

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About CRXX

CombinatoRx, Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and outlicensing synergistic combination pharmaceuticals. It develops novel therapeutics with multi-target mechanisms of action that are built from combinations of drugs that utilize novel biology to treat various conditions, including immuno-inflammatory diseases, cancer, metabolic diseases, inherited diseases, and other diseases. The company?s products include Synavive, a novel dissociated glucocorticoid product candidate to enhance the anti-inflammatory benefits of glucocorticoids, which completed phase II in rheumatoid arthritis, knee osteoarthritis, hand osteoarthritis, and biomarker study; CRx-401, an anti-diabetic agent, which is in phase IIa clinical study; and CRx-191, a topical synergistic combination drug candidate that has completed phase IIa clinical trials for psoriasis. Its products also include CRx-197, a novel topical anti-inflammatory product candidate that completed phase IIa clinical trials for the treatment of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and other inflammatory dermatoses; and CRx-170, an oral synergistic combination drug candidate, which completed phase IIa clinical trial for the potential treatment of chronic pain conditions. The company has a collaboration and licensing agreement with Clinical Data Inc. to develop an adenosine A2A agonist compound in a combination therapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma, and other B-cell cancers. CombinatoRx, Incorporated also has collaborations with Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Fovea Pharmaceuticals SA; Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics Incorporated; CHDI, Inc.; Charley?s Fund and the Nash Avery Foundation; National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; HenKan Pharmaceutical Company; Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation; Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Novartis AG. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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