Aeterna Zentaris inks deal with Specialised Therapeutics Asia for Zoptrex

13 October 2016

Canada’s Aeterna Zentaris (TSX: AEZ) has signed an exclusive license agreement with Singapore-based Specialised Therapeutics Asia (STA) for the company’s lead investigational anti-cancer compound, Zoptrex (zoptarelin doxorubicin), for the territories of Australia and New Zealand.

Zoptrex, a novel synthetic peptide carrier linked to doxorubicin, is currently undergoing a fully-enrolled Phase III clinical trial to evaluate the compound in endometrial cancer.

Aeterna Zentaris expects to complete the Phase III clinical trial in 2016 and, if the results of the trial warrant doing so, to submit a new drug application for Zoptrex to the US Food and Drug Administration in the first half of 2017.

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