LUND, SWEDEN--(Marketwire - April 26, 2011) -
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Lund, April 26, 2011
Active Biotech AB (publ)
Tomas Leanderson President & CEO
Active Biotech AB (STKM: ACTI) is a biotechnology company with
focus on autoimmune/inflammatory diseases and cancer. Projects in pivotal
phase
are laquinimod, an orally administered small molecule with
unique
immunomodulatory properties for the treatment of multiple sclerosis,
TASQ for
prostate cancer and ANYARA for use in cancer targeted therapy,
primarily of
renal cell cancer. In addition, laquinimod is in Phase II
development for
Crohn's and Lupus. Further projects in clinical development comprise
the two
orally administered compounds, 57- 57 for SLE and Systemic Sclerosis as
well as
RhuDex™ for RA. Please visit www.activebiotech.com for more
information.
Active Biotech AB (Corp. Reg. No. 556223-9227) Box 724, SE-220 07 Lund Tel: +46 46 19 20 00 Fax: +46 46 19 11 00
Active Biotech is obligated to publish the information contained in this press release in accordance with the Swedish Securities Market Act. This information was provided to the media for publication on April 26, 2011, at 07:00 a.m.
Active Biotech's partner Teva comments on DEFINE :
http://hugin.info/1002/R/1508761/443591.pdf
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