Exelixis to Present at the BMO Prescription for Success Healthcare Conference on December 14

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Exelixis, Inc. EXEL today announced that Michael M. Morrissey, Ph.D., the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will provide an overview of the company at BMO Capital Markets' Prescription for Success Healthcare Conference taking place December 14 in New York. The Exelixis presentation is scheduled for 3:40 PM EST/12:40 PM PST.

The presentation will be webcast live and may be accessed via the Event Calendar page under Investors & Media at www.exelixis.com. Please connect to the company's website at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be require to listen to the webcast. A replay will also be available at the same location for 14 days.

About Exelixis

Exelixis, Inc. EXEL is a biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines with the potential to improve care and outcomes for people with cancer. Since its founding in 1994, three medicines discovered at Exelixis have progressed through clinical development to receive regulatory approval. Currently, Exelixis is focused on advancing cabozantinib, an inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases including MET, AXL and VEGF receptors, which has shown clinical anti-tumor activity in more than 20 forms of cancer and is the subject of a broad clinical development program. Two separate formulations of cabozantinib have received regulatory approval to treat certain forms of kidney and thyroid cancer and are marketed for those purposes as CABOMETYX™ tablets (U.S. and EU) and COMETRIQ^® capsules (U.S. and EU), respectively. Another Exelixis-discovered compound, COTELLIC^® (cobimetinib), a selective inhibitor of MEK, has been approved in major territories including the United States and European Union, and is being evaluated for further potential indications by Roche and Genentech (a member of the Roche Group) under a collaboration with Exelixis. For more information on Exelixis, please visit www.exelixis.com or follow @ExelixisInc on Twitter.

Exelixis, the Exelixis logo, COMETRIQ and COTELLIC are registered U.S. trademarks, and CABOMETYX is a U.S. trademark.

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