TSX: BMR
TORONTO, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
a clinical oncology company specializing in the development and
commercialization of cancer therapies, today announced its 2008 third
quarter operational and financial results.
Operational Highlights
During the three months ended September 30, 2008 and the period subsequent to this date, the Company achieved the following milestones related to its operations and its lead drug, Neuradiab(TM), which is being studied in the Phase III GLASS-ART(TM) Trial:
- Maintained budgetary control and reduced quarterly spending;
- Signed clinical study contracts with nine of the initial 16 sites
under active consideration and activated an initial cohort of five
sites, while advancing a pipeline of additional sites in the US
through the contractual, training and regulatory process;
- Initiated dialog with Health Canada for study expansion into key
Canadian sites with the support of the Canadian Brain Cancer
consortium;
- Enrolled the first group of patients in the GLASS-ART Trial and
successfully dosed patients with Neuradiab at multiple sites;
- Announced new data from the most recent Phase II trial indicating that
the mean time to progression free survival was 77 weeks, which
compares favorably with other published results in newly diagnosed
GBM;
- Evaluated a series of technical steps that may allow a two week
extension of the shelf life of Neuradiab beyond the current six-day
specification; and
- Appointed Dr. Donald Kufe, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical
School and Director, Experimental Therapeutics Program, Dana-
Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Charles James Lilly, CA, a senior
partner with a public accounting firm, to the Board of Directors of
the Company.
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