Sanofi-Aventis buys US market rights to AEterna Zentaris' cetrorelix for up to $165M

16 March 2009

AEterna Zentaris, a Canadian biopharmaceutical firm focused on endocrine therapy and oncology, has signed a development, commercialization and  licensing agreement with French drug major Sanofi-Aventis for the  development, registration and marketing of cetrorelix in benign  prostatic hyperplasia in the USA. Cetrorelix, a luteinizing  hormone-releasing hormone antagonist, is currently in a Phase III  program in BPH, a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate, affecting  more than 20 million men in the USA alone.

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