COUGAR LICENSES RIGHTS TO SEOCALCITOL FROM LEO

Cougar Biotechnology, a privately held biotechnology company, today announced that it has licensed the worldwide, exclusive rights to seocalcitol from Dutch firm LEO Pharma A/S. Seocalcitol (EB1089) is a synthetic analog of vitamin D that has been clinically tested in a number of different cancer indications. The results of in vivo and in vitro studies have shown that vitamin D and analogs of vitamin D have anticancer activity in a wide range of tumor types.

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