From Earlier: Astex Pharma Discontinuing Amuvatinib Clinical Development

Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced that clinical development of amuvatinib (MP-470), a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor that inhibits the mutant forms of c-Kit and PDGFR alpha and disrupts DNA repair likely through suppression of homologous recombination protein Rad51, has been discontinued.