GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 6, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- VIRxSYS Corporation announced today the publication of results from their Phase I, open-label, non-randomized clinical trial evaluating VRX496, a gene-based immunotherapy for the treatment of HIV. Results of the Phase I trial conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine were published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The trial evaluated the safety and tolerability of VRX496, enrolling five subjects with chronic HIV infection who had failed to respond to at least two antiretroviral (ARV) drug regimens. Each of the five patients who tolerated the gene therapy treatment experienced decreases in viral load and experienced stable or increased CD4 T cell counts.
