Thirteen Abstracts Featuring Exelixis, Inc. Compounds Accepted for Presentation at the 2009 American Association for Cancer Research-National Cancer Institute-EORTC International Conference

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) announced today that thirteen abstracts related to the company’s development candidates have been accepted for presentation at the 2009 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, which is being held November 15-19 in Boston. Interim data from ongoing phase 1 clinical trials of XL147 and XL765 will be reported in four poster presentations. Exelixis is co-developing XL147 and XL765 in collaboration with sanofi-aventis. Clinical data for an ongoing phase 1 trial of XL139, which is being co-developed with Bristol-Myers Squibb, will also be reported. Other poster presentations will cover a variety of preclinical data and preclinical and clinical biomarker data for six compounds.

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