Suzhou, China (Press Release) – CStone Pharma­ceu­ticals (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. ("CStone", stock code: 2616.HK) announced that the National Medical Products Admin­istra­tion (NMPA) recently approved com­pany's histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) selective inhibitor CS3003 for Phase I clin­i­cal trial in China. This is a multi-center, Phase I dose escalation study synchronously conducted in China and Australia in patients with ad­vanced solid tumors and re­lapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Dr. Frank Jiang, Chairman and CEO, commented: "CS3003 is the ninth drug can­di­date of CStone with Investigational New Drug approval obtained in China. At present, there …