Cell Therapeutics To Host Analyst And Investor Meeting On Advances And Existing Challenges In The Treatment Of Myelofibrosis With Live Webcast

SEATTLE, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that CTI will provide a live audio and slide webcast of its analyst and investor meeting to be held on January 23 in New York.  Expert speakers will focus on advances in treatment using JAK inhibitors and existing challenges in treating myelofibrosis patients. Guest speakers include:

Ross L. Levine, M.D., Associate Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and Leukemia Service, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College

Srdan Verstovsek, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Leukemia Department, Division of Cancer Medicine, Chief, Section for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Leukemia Department, and Director, Clinical Research Center for MPNs, at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

CTI recently initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial, known as PERSIST-1, for pacritinib, CTI's investigational JAK2 inhibitor that is being evaluated for the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis.  

Webcast Details

Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Time: 9:00 a.m. Eastern / 6:00 a.m. Pacific / 3:00 p.m. Central European time to 10:30 a.m. Eastern/ 7:30 a.m. Pacific/ 4:30 p.m. Central European time

Live webcast access: Go to  www.celltherapeutics.com. The audio presentation with slides will be available approximately two hours after the end of the meeting.

About Pacritinib

Pacritinib is an oral, once-a-day, tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with dual activity against JAK2 and FLT3.  The JAK family of enzymes are a central component in signal transduction pathways, which are critical to normal blood cell growth and development as well as inflammatory cytokine expression and immune responses. Mutations in these kinases have been shown to be directly related to the development of a variety of blood related cancers including myeloproliferative neoplasms, leukemia and lymphoma.  Pacritinib may offer an advantage over other JAK inhibitors through effective treatment of symptoms while having less treatment-emergent thrombocytopenia and anemia than has been seen in currently approved and in-development JAK inhibitors.  Pacritinib has demonstrated encouraging results in Phase 1 and 2 studies for patients with myelofibrosis.  Pacritinib has orphan drug designation in the U.S. and Europe.

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