CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing cancer therapeutics, today announced that the company has been added to the Russell 2000® Index, as part of the annual reconstitution of the entire Russell family of indexes that took place on June 25, 2010 following the close of the market. The Russell 2000® Index, a subset of the Russell 3000® Index, measures the performance of the small-cap segment of U.S. equities.