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OTCPicks.com Stocks to Watch for Tuesday, May 26th OXGN, SFIO, SEED

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Our Stocks to Watch tomorrow include OXiGENE Inc. (Nasdaq: OXGN), Smokefree Innotec Inc. (OTC: SFIO) and Origin Agritech Limited (Nasdaq: SEED). Visit http://www.otcpicks.com/microcap.htm to register for our Daily Market Mover's Digest Newsletter, and Email Stock Watch Alerts.

 

OXIGENE INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: OXGN) "Up 60.00% on Friday" OXiGENE, Inc. develops small-molecule therapeutics to treat cancer and eye diseases in the United States. It focuses on the development and commercialization of drug candidates that disrupt abnormal blood vessels associated with solid tumor progression and visual impairment in ocular diseases. The company's product ZYBRESTAT, is in Phase II/III pivotal registration study as a potential treatment for anaplastic thyroid cancer, as well as in Phase Ib and II clinical trials for other solid tumors, including non-small cell lung cancer, platinum resistant ovarian cancer, and head-and-neck cancer. It also develops a topical formulation of ZYBRESTAT for ophthalmological diseases and conditions, such as age-related macular degeneration. In addition, OXiGENE develops OXi4503, an ortho-quinone prodrug, which is in Phase I clinical trial for solid tumors. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

 

SMOKEFREE INNOTEC INCORPORATED (OTC: SFIO) "Up 44.00% on Friday" Smokefree Innotec, Inc. is in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a hi-tech, nicotine delivery cigarette-like device which is completely smoke-free and tobacco-free. Smokefree Innotec’s products are designed to protect the non-smoker from second hand smoke and all its effects while providing the smoker a way to enjoy a smoke-free cigarette anywhere, including places where smoking is prohibited. Further, our products will allow the smoker to enjoy smoking while not having to worry about the dangers and ill effects of regular cigarette smoking.

 

ORIGIN AGRITECH LIMITED (NASDAQ: SEED) "Up 41.26% on Friday" Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Beijing, Origin Agritech Limited is China’s leading, vertically-integrated agricultural technology company specializing in agri-biotech research, development and production to supply the growing populations of China. Origin develops, grows, processes, and markets crop seeds to farmers throughout China and parts of Southeast Asia via a network of approximately 3,800 first-level distributors and 65,000 second-level distributors and retailers. The hybrid seed industry is estimated at US $2.5 billion and that is expected to double within the next five years. The Company currently operates facilities in 30 of 32 provinces in China. Since Origin launched its first entirely internally developed seed in 2003, the Company has developed 26 proprietary corn seed products, 19 proprietary rice seed products, 5 proprietary cotton seed products and 4 proprietary canola seed products that are in commercial production and distribution as of December 2008.

 

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