PARIS and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT:SAN) (NYSE:SNY) and its wholly owned subsidiary, BiPar Sciences, today announced the initiation of the pivotal Phase 3 trial for BSI-201 in combination with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC), defined by tumors lacking expression of estrogen, progesterone receptors and without over-expression of HER2. BSI-201 is a novel, investigational, targeted therapy which inhibits poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP1), an enzyme involved in DNA damage repair.
