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Astex Pharmaceuticals

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436 Science Park
Milton Road
Cambridge
CB4 0QA
GB

Astex is a leader in innovative drug discovery and development, committed to the fight against cancer and diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).

We are a member of one of Japan’s leading pharmaceutical companies, the Otsuka group, and therefore benefit from the resources and commitment of a global pharmaceutical company.

We are pioneers of fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD)

The most important advance in discovery chemistry in the last 20 years. Our FBDD platform, “Pyramid™”, has been successfully applied to therapeutic targets addressing a variety of disease areas. We also have a number of partnered products arising from drug discovery collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies.

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