June 30, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Go to http://www.financialwire.net/?s=ftrdnwswnd for all of today’s featured news.) — Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: ANX) was added to the Russell Microcap Index on June 25, when Russell Investments reconstituted its line of U.S. indexes. The Russell Microcap Index measures the performance of the microcap segment of the U.S. equity market. It includes 1,000 of the smallest securities in the small-cap Russell 2000 Index based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and it includes the next 1,000 securities.

Russell’s indexes are used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for passive and active investment strategies. They are reconstituted annually.  

Brian M. Culley, CEO of Adventrx, said,  "Membership should facilitate our introduction to potential investors, which may prove beneficial as we approach the important milestone of submitting the Exelbine NDA, which is planned for the fourth quarter of this year."

California-based Adventrx Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company whose product candidates are designed to improve the performance of existing cancer treatments by addressing limitations associated principally with their safety and use.  

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