Viral Genetics Scientist Presents Potential New Treatment for Drug Resistant Brain Tumors at Aspen...(een able to dramatically limit the fuel ...)

Date:8/11/2009

een able to dramatically limit the fuel tumor cells require to repair the damage done by chemotherapy. Dr. Newell's work illustrates the benefit of using metabolic disruption in combination with chemotherapy to not only directly starve the tumor cells but to also prevent them from resisting the effects of the chemotherapy."

ABOUT VIRAL GENETICS:

Headquartered in San Marino, California, Viral Genetics discovers and develops drug therapies to treat infectious, autoimmune, and immunological deficiency disorders using its thymus nuclear protein compound (TNP). The company recently entered into an Exclusive License Agreement with the University of Colorado and V-Clip Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of the Company) to license technology developed by M. Karen Newell, PhD, that appears to explain TNP and provide a means to optimize therapies based on TNP for future clinical trials. Viral Genetics believes that its investigational HIV/AIDS drug based on TNP, called VGV-1, represents a unique approach to treating HIV due to the apparently novel mechanism, low toxicity profile, simple dosing regimen, and short-course of treatment. Viral Genetics recently formed a wholly owned subsidiary called MetaCytoLytics, Inc, to advance a technology developed by University of Colorado Professor M. Karen Newell called "metabolic disruption technology" (MDT), which focuses on blocking a tumor cell's ability to generate energy from glucose or from fatty acids. Viral Genetics has an option to acquire exclusive rights to the metabolic disruption technology from the University of Vermont and the University of Colorado, where the technology was invented and developed by Dr. Newell. Viral Genetics is completing negotiations to convert the option into an exclusive worldwide license covering a broad range of uses and specific therapeutic compositions. Online at www.viralgenetics.com.

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