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TOKYO – April 1, 2019 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D. “Astellas”) today announced results from the Phase 3 ADMIRAL clinical trial comparing XOSPATA ® (gilteritinib) to salvage chemotherapy in adult patients with relapsed or refractory (resistant to treatment) Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) with a FLT3 mutation. The results show that patients treated with...

BOTHELL, Wash. and TOKYO, Mar 28, 2019 – Seattle Genetics, Inc . (Nasdaq:SGEN) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from the first cohort of patients in a pivotal phase 2 single-arm clinical trial known as EV-201. The cohort is evaluating enfortumab vedotin for the treatment of patients with locally...

TOKYO, March 26, 2019 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced results from a Phase 2b dose-finding study of fezolinetant, presented in an oral session (Abstract OR33-6 ) at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Fezolinetant, a selective neurokinin-3 (NK3) receptor antagonist, is an investigational oral,...

TOKYO, March 26, 2019 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that Smyraf ® 50 mg and 100 mg Tablets (generic name: peficitinib hydrobromide), an oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, received manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (including prevention of structural joint damage) in...