"CTI Business Strategy for Cancer Research, Cancer Treatment, and Cancer Drug Development"

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height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td></td> <td valign="TOP" class="a"> <br> <br> <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="a"> <tr> <td valign="TOP" colspan="2" class="a"> <h2>Our goal is to build a leading, vertically integrated biopharmaceutical company with a diversified portfolio of proprietary cancer drugs.</h2> The following are the key elements of our business strategy: </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="TOP"><img src="images/0.gif" width="13" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> <td valign="top"><img src="images/0.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="TOP"><b> </b></td> <td valign="top" class="a"> We target development and registration strategies in the United States or Europe that take advantage of the ability to accelerate approval either because there is an unmet medical need, or because our product profiles demonstrate significant improvement in <a href="abou_frame-glos.htm#efficacy">efficacy</a> or safety over competitive <a href="abou_frame-glos.htm#cancer">cancer</a> drugs.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" valign="TOP"><img src="images/0.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> <td valign="TOP"><img src="images/0.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="TOP"><b> </b></td> <td valign="TOP" class="a"> We plan to devote a substantial portion of our efforts to develop XYOTAX and pixantrone.</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" valign="TOP"><img src="images/0.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> <td valign="TOP"><img src="images/0.gif" width="10" height="10" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td valign="TOP" height="61"><b> </b></td> <td valign="TOP" class="a" height="61"> <p>We have development capabilities to expand our portfolio of improved versions of currently marketed anti-cancer drugs. In addition, we are actively researching more novel drug targets that will deliver agents with improved side effect and efficacy profiles compared to competitor cancer drugs.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <br> <br> <font class="cr">Posted July 18, 2005</font><br> <br> <font class="cr">Copyright © 2004, 2005 Cell Therapeutics, Inc., Seattle, WA, USA. All rights reserved. "Making cancer more treatable" is a registered mark of CTI. </font> <br>  </td> <td><img src="images/0.gif" width="5" height="128" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="270"><img src="images/0.gif" width="270" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td width="50"><img src="images/0.gif" width="50" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td width="100%"><img src="images/0.gif" width="400" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td width="50"><img src="images/0.gif" width="50" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> </body>