OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OncoGenex) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of new cancer therapies that address treatment resistance in cancer patients. The Company has four product candidates in its pipeline: custirsen, OGX-427, OGX-225 and CSP-9222. Of the product candidates in its pipeline, custirsen and OGX-427 are clinical-stage assets. The Company�s product candidates custirsen, OGX-427, and OGX-225 focus on mechanisms of treatment resistance in cancer patients and are designed to block the production of specific proteins that promote survival of tumor cells, and are over-produced in response to a variety of cancer treatments. Product candidate CSP-9222 is the lead compound from a family of caspase activators that have been in-licensed from Bayer and demonstrate activation of programmed cell death in pre-clinical models.