UPDATE: Samaritan Kicks Off Follow-On HIV Study
March 09 2006 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Samaritan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMEX:LIV) a developer of innovative
drugs, announced today, it is starting a second Phase II
monotherapy trial, of its lead oral entry inhibitor anti-viral
agent SP01A, in treatment experienced HIV-infected patients. Dr.
Thomas Lang, Samaritan's Chief Drug Development Officer stated, "We
have completed enrollment for our first monotherapy trial and the
start of this second trial means we have cleared another important
milestone in SP01A's development path." Dr. Janet Greeson, CEO of
Samaritan stated, "We remain enthusiastically confident in the
promise of SP01A. As we successful complete each of these FDA
milestones, it completely strengthens our belief in SP01A as a
life-saving drug for HIV drug resistant patients." The trial is a
multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, study
of orally administered SP01A as monotherapy, in HIV-infected
patients. This trial is designed to accrue treatment-experienced
HIV patients that are failing on their current anti-viral therapy.
Patients are entered into a 2-week washout phase followed by 28
days of monotherapy treatment with SP01A. The primary analysis for
the study is the reduction in viral load (log10) in SP01A active
arms and a placebo arm, as measured from Baseline to Study-End. For
more information on this clinical trial, please go to the FDA
Clinical Trials Website at
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