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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Medical Technology Breaking News: Aethlon Medical (OTCQB: AEMD) Reports Rapid and Sustained Virologic Response Rates in Hepatitis C (HCV) Treated Patients

SAN DIEGO - May 21, 2014 (Investorideas.com newswire) Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD), the pioneer in developing selective therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease, cancer and other life-threatening conditions, today announced high rapid virologic response (RVR) and sustained virologic response (SVR) rates in Hepatitis-C virus (HCV) infected individuals who were administered Hemopurifier® therapy.

Investorideas.com Newswire The Aethlon Hemopurifier® is a first-in-class medical device that selectively targets the rapid clearance of viral pathogens and tumor-secreted exosomes from the entire circulatory system to improve the benefit of drug therapies administered to infectious disease and cancer patients. In HCV care, the device is positioned to address drug resistance associated with emerging all-antiviral therapies and also targets to accelerate HCV RNA depletion at the outset of peginterferon+ribavirin (PR) therapy.
Aethlon recently disclosed that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) that now allows the Company to initiate HCV human feasibility studies of Hemopurifier® therapy in the United States. Aethlon announced yesterday that its first U.S. clinical study will be conducted at the DaVita MedCenter Dialysis in Houston, Texas. It is estimated that approximately 170 million people worldwide are infected with HCV, which leads to chronic liver disease or cirrhosis, and is a leading cause of liver transplantation.
In the reported study, HCV-infected individuals were enrolled to receive three six-hour Hemopurifier® treatments during the first three days of a 48-week peginterferon+ribavirin (PR) treatment regimen. The study was conducted under the leadership of Dr. Vijay Kher at the Medanta Medicity, a multi-specialty medical institute established to be a premier center for medical tourism in India. Aethlon reported that Hemopurifier® therapy was well tolerated and without device-related adverse events in twelve treated patients. Of these twelve patients, nine completed the Hemopurifier-PR treatment protocol, including seven genotype-1 patients and two genotype-3 patients. Seven of the nine patients (n=7/9) achieved a sustained virologic response (SVR), which is the clinical definition of treatment cure and is defined as undetectable HCV RNA 24-weeks after the completion of the 48-week PR drug regimen. Both genotype-3 patients achieved a SVR (n=2/2), while five of the seven genotype-1 patients achieved a SVR (n=5/7).
Of the nine patients that completed the protocol, five (n=5/9) also achieved a rapid virologic response (RVR), defined as undetectable HCV RNA at day 30 of therapy. RVR represents the clinical endpoint that best predicts SVR cure rates. As a point of reference, the landmark IDEAL Study of 3,070 HCV genotype-1 patients documented that only 10.35% (n=318/3070) of PR treated patients will achieve a RVR. However, patients that achieved a RVR had SVR rates of 86.2% (n=274/318) versus SVR rates of 32.5% (n=897/2752) in non-RVR patients.
Data from three patients were not included in the reported dataset. Among the three patients was a genotype-5 patient who discontinued PR therapy at day 180, yet remained undetectable at 1.5 years after initiation of therapy. The second was a genotype-3 patient who was unable to tolerate PR therapy and, as a result, discontinued PR therapy at day-90, yet was still undetectable one year after initiating therapy. The third patient, who had the genotype-1 virus, was reported undetectable at the completion of the 48-week PR treatment regimen, but SVR results are not due on that patient until September of this year.
"It appears the intermittent application of Hemopurifier® therapy during just the first three days of a 48-week interferon regimen can significantly influence treatment outcomes," stated Aethlon Chairman and CEO, Jim Joyce. "We now look forward to the clinical advancement of Hemopurifier® protocols against infectious viral pathogens and cancer indications in the United States."
About Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Aethlon Medical creates innovative medical devices to address life-threatening diseases. The Aethlon ADAPT™ (Adaptive Dialysis-like Affinity Platform Technology) establishes the basis for a new class of therapeutics that target the rapid elimination of disease enabling particles from the circulatory system of treated patients. The lead Aethlon ADAPT™ product is the Hemopurifier®, a device that addresses a broad-spectrum of viral pathogens as well as tumorsecreted exosomes that suppress the immune system of cancer patients. Aethlon is also operating under two government contracts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) related the development of a medical device to reduce the incidence of sepsis. Exosome Sciences, Inc. is a majority owned Aethlon subsidiary that is advancing exosome-based strategies to diagnose and monitor cancer and infectious disease progression. Additional information can be found at www.AethlonMedical.com
Certain statements herein may be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, that the ESI will not be able to commercialize its future products, that the FDA will not approve the initiation of the Company's existing or future clinical programs or provide market clearance of the company's products, future human studies whether revenue or non-revenue generating of the Aethlon ADAPT™ system or the Aethlon Hemopurifier® as an adjunct therapy to improve patient responsiveness to established cancer or hepatitis C therapies or as a standalone cancer or hepatitis C therapy, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products either internally or through outside companies and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, the ability of the Company to meet the milestones contemplated in the DARPA contract, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Contacts:
James A. Joyce
Chairman and CEO
858.459.7800 x301
jj@aethlonmedical.com
Jim Frakes
Chief Financial Officer
858.459.7800 x300
jfrakes@aethlonmedical.com
Marc Robins
877.276.2467
mr@aethlonmedical.com
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Medical Technology Breaking News: Aethlon Medical (OTCQB: AEMD) Announces Definitive Agreement with DaVita Clinical Research and Site Location and Principal Investigator of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Clinical Study

SAN DIEGO - May 20, 2014 (Investorideas.com newswire) Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD), the pioneer in developing selective therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease, cancer and other life-threatening conditions, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with DaVita Clinical Research (DCR) to provide clinical management services to support the forthcoming feasibility study of the Aethlon Hemopurifier®. The Hemopurifier is a first-in-class therapeutic device that targets the rapid elimination of circulating viruses and tumor-secreted exosomes that suppress the immune system of cancer patients. Aethlon further announced that the Principal Investigator for this study will be Dr. Stephen Z. Fadem.


The clinical trial site location will be DaVita MedCenter Dialysis in Houston. Dr. Fadem is co-medical director of DaVita MedCenter Dialysis and this center is one of the three largest dialysis centers in the country with 72 treatment stations.
Aethlon previously disclosed that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) that allows the Company to initiate human feasibility studies of the Aethlon Hemopurifier in the United States. Under the feasibility study protocol, Aethlon is to treat ten ESRD patients infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) to demonstrate the safety of Hemopurifier therapy. Successful completion of the feasibility study will set the stage for Aethlon to conduct pivotal studies required for market clearance to treat HCV and potentially other disease indications.
"The combination of DCR, DaVita MedCenter Dialysis, and Dr. Fadem provides Aethlon with the ideal team of professionals and infrastructure with which to conduct our infectious disease clinical study. Additionally, their proximity to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and other specialty facilities located within the Texas Medical Center provide for a unique location to conduct future clinical investigations of Hemopurifier® therapy in a variety of life-threatening health conditions," stated Aethlon Medical CEO Jim Joyce.
DCR is a specialty contract research organization (CRO) with experience in conducting more than 300 early phase clinical trials. As a subsidiary of DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc, DCR has access to one third of the total U.S. ESRD patient population and maintains a network that exceeds 150 investigative physicians' practices at more than 250 clinical sites.
Dr. Fadem is a practicing Houston nephrologist and is currently the Chief Medical Officer at Kidney Associates, PLLC and the Medical Director for the Houston Kidney Center Integrated Service Network at DaVita Kidney Care, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. He began practice in 1978 after completing a renal fellowship at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and did his internal medicine residency at The University of Texas and MD Anderson Hospital in Houston. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology, diplomat of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (CHCQM - Certified Health Care Quality Management), and a member of the International Society of Nephrology, Renal Physicians Association, the American Association of Kidney Patients and The National Kidney Foundation. He is active in quality management, credentialing and peer review for his dialysis centers.
On a national level, he is co-chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the American Association of Kidney Patients, and a past vice-president of the Board of Directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Renal Physicians Association, and actively serves on two national RPA committees, the Government Affairs Committee and the Health Finance Committee. Dr. Fadem has been active in the Forum of ESRD (end stage renal disease) Networks and was a member of the CMS Clinical Performance Measures Committee. He lectures frequently on dialysis management, preventive nephrology, vascular calcification, anemia, patient education, CKD education, computer technology and computer security. Dr. Fadem is a co-editor of AAKP Renalife and is a reviewer for several peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Fadem has been nationally recognized by receiving the American Association of Kidney Patient's Nova Award, the National Kidney Foundation's Distinguished Service Award. He has also received the National Kidney Foundation's Presidents Award and the Myron L. Jenkins Award. He has been awarded the Peter Lundin Award for his contributions to patient education and The Visionary Award for his contributions to CKD education. He is the 2013 winner of the DaVita Core Value Award for Continuous Improvement. He has been named as one of America's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and US News and World Report, and is consistently ranked as a Top Doctor in Houston by Texas Magazine.
About DaVita Kidney Care
DaVita Kidney Care is a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a Fortune 500® company that, through its operating divisions, provides a variety of health care services to patient populations throughout the United States and abroad. A leading provider of dialysis services in the United States, DaVita Kidney Care treats patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal disease. DaVita Kidney Care strives to improve patients' quality of life by innovating clinical care, and by offering integrated treatment plans, personalized care teams and convenient health-management services. As of March 31, 2014, DaVita Kidney Care operated or provided administrative services at 2,098 outpatient dialysis centers located in the United States serving approximately 165,000 patients. The company also operated 75 outpatient dialysis centers located in 10 countries outside the United States. DaVita Kidney Care supports numerous programs dedicated to creating positive, sustainable change in communities around the world. The company's leadership development initiatives and social responsibility efforts have been recognized by Fortune, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek and WorldBlu. For more information, please visit DaVita.com.
About Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Aethlon Medical creates innovative medical devices to address life-threatening diseases. The Aethlon ADAPT™ (Adaptive Dialysis-like Affinity Platform Technology) establishes the basis for a new class of therapeutics that target the rapid elimination of disease enabling particles from the circulatory system of treated patients. The lead Aethlon ADAPT™ product is the Hemopurifier®, a device that addresses a broad-spectrum of viral pathogens as well as tumorsecreted exosomes that suppress the immune system of cancer patients. Aethlon is also operating under two government contracts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) related the development of a medical device to reduce the incidence of sepsis. Exosome Sciences, Inc. is a majority owned Aethlon subsidiary that is advancing exosome-based strategies to diagnose and monitor cancer and infectious disease progression. Additional information can be found at www.AethlonMedical.com
Certain statements herein may be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, that the ESI will not be able to commercialize its future products, that the FDA will not approve the initiation of the Company's existing or future clinical programs or provide market clearance of the company's products, future human studies whether revenue or non-revenue generating of the Aethlon ADAPT™ system or the Aethlon Hemopurifier® as an adjunct therapy to improve patient responsiveness to established cancer or hepatitis C therapies or as a standalone cancer or hepatitis C therapy, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products either internally or through outside companies and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, the ability of the Company to meet the milestones contemplated in the DARPA contract, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Contacts:
James A. Joyce
Chairman and CEO
858.459.7800 x301
jj@aethlonmedical.com
Jim Frakes
Chief Financial Officer
858.459.7800 x300
jfrakes@aethlonmedical.com
Marc Robins
877.276.2467
mr@aethlonmedical.com
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Medical Technology Breaking News: Aethlon Medical (OTCQB: AEMD) CEO Note: Cancer Treatment Discovery, Exosomes Transport Pharmaceutical Industry Targets

SAN DIEGO - May 14, 2014 (Investorideas.com newswire) Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD), today released the following note authored by its Chairman and CEO, Jim Joyce

Investorideas.com Newswire The discovery that our Hemopurifer® captures tumor-secreted exosomes provides hope for a new therapeutic paradigm to augment cancer care. Yes, the same Hemopurifier® we are preparing to advance in a forthcoming FDA approved infectious disease study. In my last CEO note, I referenced a National Institute of Health (NIH) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored article that referenced Hemopurifier® therapy as a candidate to address tumor-secreted exosomes.
The article detailed several exosomal mechanisms that promote cancer progression, including suppression of the immune system, triggering resistance to cancer therapies, promotion of angiogenesis and seeding the spread of metastasis. The article also indicated that high levels of circulating exosomes correlated with advanced stage cancer.
As researchers continue to unravel the deleterious mechanisms of exosomes underlying cancer, it has become clear that these particles also transport many molecular targets of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Thus providing further support for a medical device that is able to target circulating exosomes without adding drug toxicity to established cancer therapies.
In this regard, I am pleased to share the following overview authored by Dr. Annette Marleau (our Director of Tumor Immunology), which outlines oncology targets of the pharmaceutical industry that have been reported to be transported by exosomes.
Therapeutic Elimination of Cancer Exosomes: Delivery Vehicles For A Spectrum of Pharmaceutical Industry Targets
The Aethlon Hemopurifier® is a first-in-class extracorporeal hemofiltration device with the ability to capture and retain disease-mediating particles from the entire circulatory system. Utilizing existing hemodialysis infrastructure, Hemopurifier® cartridges are packed with a carbohydrate-binding protein known as GNA, which has a unique affinity for glycosylated particles that are typically released in large quantities by diseased cells.
Among the disease targets that can be addressed by Hemopurifier® therapy are exosomes (also sometimes referred to as extracellular vesicles or microvesicles). Previously thought to represent unwanted cellular debris, an explosion of research has now proven that exosomes serve as primary transportation systems between the body's cells. In disease conditions such as cancer, pathogenic material from diseased cells is packaged into exosomes and released into circulation, thereby unleashing the cancer's arsenal of malignant signals throughout the body. In recent years, the scientific community has identified a complement of disease-causing proteins and genes carried in the exosomal cargo, the tumor's essential blueprint. Exosomes are thus major purveyors of aggressive cancer phenotypes, able to provide the comprehensive array of mediators for tumor growth and metastasis, drug resistance, immune suppression, and angiogenesis.
Drawing from the surplus of possible targets in cancer therapeutics, pharmaceutical companies are vying in a race for clinical enhancement and commercialization of a plethora of drug candidates, including tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) and monoclonal antibodies (mAb) directed at specific mediators of malignancy. We envision that addressing exosomes therapeutically could serve as a strategy for dealing with many of these disease targets simultaneously. Indeed, an analysis of the drug targets being pursued by the pharmaceutical industry reveals that many of these targets are actually transported by cancer exosomes during the disease process. Included in the pipeline of promising oncology drugs are immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting programmed cell death protein 1 (also known as PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1, B7-H1), a molecular pathway triggered by exosomes that contributes to muted anti-cancer responses. As underscored by the list that follows, the drug targets present in exosomes encompass the breadth of molecular pathways that are exploited by tumors to escape immune surveillance and hijack host tissues, including CTLA-4, HGF/met, FGF, b-Raf, EGFR, HER2, CD20, P-glycoprotein, and VEGF/VEGFR.
Immune Suppression
Programmed Cell Death 1 & Ligand (PD-1/PD-1L):
  • Merck: Lambrolizumab/MK-3475 (anti-PD-1 mAb)
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb: Nivolumab/BMS-936558 (anti-PD-1 mAb)
  • CureTech/Teva: Pidilizumab/CT-011 (anti-PD-1 mAb)
  • Roche/Genentech: MPDL3280A (anti-PD-L1 mAb)
  • Medimmune/AstraZeneca: MEDI4736 (anti-PD-L1 mAb).
  • Amplimmune/GlaxoSmithKline: AMP-224 (PD-L2-IgG1 Fc fusion protein).
CTLA-4
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb: Ipilimumab/Yervoy® (anti-CTLA-4 mAb)
  • Medimmune/Pfizer: Tremelimumab/CP-675-206 (anti-CTLA-4 mAb)
Tumor Growth & Metastasis
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) & Receptor (Met):
  • Amgen: Rilotumumab/AMG 102 (anti-HGF mAb)
  • Genentech/Roche: Onartuzumab/OA-5D (anti-Met mAb)
  • Aveo: Ficlatuzumab/AV-299 (anti-HGF mAb)
  • Amgen: AMG 337 (MET TKI)
  • Eli Lilly: LY-2875358 (anti-Met mAb).
  • ArQule: Tivantinib/ARQ 197 (MET TKI)
  • Novartis/Incyte: INCB28060/INC280 (MET TKI)
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)
  • Novarits: Dovitinib/TK1285 (FGFR, VEGFR & PDGF TKI)
B-raf
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Tafinlar™/Dabrafenib (B-raf kinase inhibitor)
  • Genentech: Zelboraf®/Vemurafenib (B-raf kinase inhibitor)
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR)
  • Genentech: Tarceva®/Erlotinib (EGFR TKI)
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb & Eli Lilly: Cetuximab/Erbitux (anti-EGFR mAb)
  • Amgen: Vectitbix/Panitumumab (anti-EGFR mAb)
  • Boehringer Ingelheim: Gilotrif™/Afatinib (EGFR/HER2 TKI)
HER2
  • Genentech: Herceptin®/Trastuzumab (anti-HER2 mAb)
  • Genentech: Kadcyla®/Ado-trastuzumab emtansine (anti-HER2 mAb linked to DM1 drug)
  • Genentech: Perjeta®/Pertuzimab (anti-HER2 mAb)
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Tykerb/Lapatinib (dual TKI against HER2 and EGFR)
CD20
  • Biogen Idec & Genentech: Rituxan®/Rituximab (anti-CD20 mAb)
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Arzerra™/Ofatumumab (anti-CD20 mAb)
  • Genentech: Gazyva™/Obinutuzumab (anti-CD20 mAb)
Drug Resistance
P-glycoprotein
  • Novartis: Valspodar/PSC-833 (P-glycoprotein inhibitor).
Tumor Angiogenesis
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) & Receptor (VEGFR):
  • Genentech/Roche: Avastin®/Bevacizumab (anti-VEGF mAb)
  • Eli Lilly: Cyramza™ /Ramucirumab (anti-VEGFR2 mAb)
  • Exelixis/GlaxoSmithKline: Foretnib/XL880/GSK1363089 (MET/VEGFR2 inhibitor).
  • Sanofi & Regeneron: Zaltrap®/Ziv-Afibercept (VEGFR1/2 IgG1 Fc fusion protein)
Although this list of pharmaceutical targets and drugs is by no means all-inclusive, it highlights the broad scope of cancer's cellular pathways that can be addressed individually or in combination. While small molecule therapies are widely used against cancer, complicating factors include the development of resistance and debilitating side effects in response to these agents. Given that cancer exosomes have been reported to transport these pharmaceutical targets, therapeutic hemofiltration of exosomes offers significant clinical potential, whereby the tumor's complement of disease-mediating particles can be diminished simultaneously without additive drug toxicities or interaction risks to the patient.
About Aethlon Medical, Inc.
Aethlon Medical creates innovative medical devices to address life-threatening diseases. The Aethlon ADAPT™ (Adaptive Dialysis-like Affinity Platform Technology) establishes the basis for a new class of therapeutics that target the rapid elimination of disease enabling particles from the circulatory system of treated patients. The lead Aethlon ADAPT™ product is the Hemopurifier®, a device that addresses a broad-spectrum of viral pathogens as well as tumorsecreted exosomes that suppress the immune system of cancer patients. Aethlon is also operating under two government contracts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) related the development of a medical device to reduce the incidence of sepsis. Exosome Sciences, Inc. is a majority owned Aethlon subsidiary that is advancing exosome-based strategies to diagnose and monitor cancer and infectious disease progression. Additional information can be found at www.AethlonMedical.com
Certain statements herein may be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, that the ESI will not be able to commercialize its future products, that the FDA will not approve the initiation of the Company's existing or future clinical programs or provide market clearance of the company's products, future human studies whether revenue or non-revenue generating of the Aethlon ADAPT™ system or the Aethlon Hemopurifier® as an adjunct therapy to improve patient responsiveness to established cancer or hepatitis C therapies or as a standalone cancer or hepatitis C therapy, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products either internally or through outside companies and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, the ability of the Company to meet the milestones contemplated in the DARPA contract, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Contacts:
James A. Joyce
Chairman and CEO
858.459.7800 x301
jj@aethlonmedical.com
Jim Frakes
Chief Financial Officer
858.459.7800 x300
jfrakes@aethlonmedical.com
Marc Robins
877.276.2467
mr@aethlonmedical.com
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Biotech News Alert: Sunshine Biopharma (OTCQB: SBFM) ANNOUNCES ISSUANCE OF NOTICE OF ALLOWANCE FOR THE PATENT APPLICATION COVERING Adva-27a ANTICANCER COMPOUND IN CANADA

MONTREAL, QC - May 12, 2014 (Investorideas.com Biotech Newswire) Sunshine Biopharma, Inc. (OTCQB: SBFM), a pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of various forms of cancer today announced that a “Notice of Allowance” for the patent application covering its lead antitumor compound, Adva-27a, has recently been issued in Canada. The allowed claims in Canada are nearly identical to those already issued in the United States where Sunshine Biopharma is the exclusive licensee. Sunshine Biopharma has previously announced preclinical results showing that Adva-27a has excellent pharmacokinetics profile in rats and remarkable cytotoxic activity against a variety of multidrug resistant cancer cells including breast cancer cells and pancreatic cancer cells. Adva-27a appears to be unique in its ability to destroy multidrug resistant cancer cells. Sunshine Biopharma is moving forward with the next steps in the development of Adva-27a which include GMP manufacturing, IND-enabling studies and Phase I clinical trials.

“Allowance of the Adva-27a patent application in Canada constitutes yet another stamp of approval for the validity and innovative aspects of Adva-27a ,” said Dr. Steve N. Slilaty, Chief Executive Officer of Sunshine Biopharma. “We are very excited about moving our Adva-27a to the next stage of development and the prospects of it becoming a new weapon in the battle against cancer.”
About Adva-27a
Adva-27a is Sunshine Biopharma's lead anticancer compound, a small molecule that has recently been shown to be effective at killing multidrug resistant breast cancer cells, small-cell lung cancer cells, uterine sarcoma cells and pancreatic cancer cells (Published in ANTICANCER RESEARCH, Volume 32, Pages 4423-4432, October 2012). Adva-27a is currently in the IND-Enabling stage of development. The original U.S. patent covering Adva-27a was issued on August 7, 2012 under U.S. patent number 8,236,935. The Company is planning a Phase I clinical trial of Adva-27a for pancreatic cancer in parallel to the Phase I clinical trial of Adva-27a for multidrug resistant breast cancer to be conducted at McGill University's Jewish General Hospital in Montreal (Canada).
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Contact:
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CFO
Sunshine Biopharma, Inc.
Direct Line: 514-814-0464
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