DUBLIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTX), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics, announced the acceptance of four abstracts detailing recent work with Astex Pharmaceuticals compounds. Poster presentations will occur on November 13, 14 and 15, 2011 at the 2011 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in San Francisco, California.