MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CXS), announced today that the results of pre-clinical research that demonstrated that omacetaxine kills model human leukemic stem cells were presented at the 14th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Berlin, Germany on Sunday. Human leukemic stem cells are known to be insensitive to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), the drug family currently approved to treat Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). The work was carried out in collaboration with Professor Tessa Holyoake at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
