Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Doses First Patient in Cotara(R) Phase II Brain Cancer Tria...(in India Cotara is currentlyin a dosimet...),Health

Date:8/19/2007

in India, Cotara is currently in a dosimetry and dose confirmation trial in glioblastoma patients at leading U.S. academic brain cancer centers. Cotara has been granted orphan drug status and fast track designation for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

About Peregrine Pharmaceuticals

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a portfolio of innovative product candidates in clinical trials for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The company is pursuing three separate clinical programs in cancer and HCV infection in the U.S. and India with its lead product candidates bavituximab and Cotara(R). Peregrine also has in-house manufacturing capabilities through its wholly owned subsidiary Avid Bioservices, Inc. (http://www.avidbio.com), which provides development and bio-manufacturing services for both Peregrine and outside customers. Additional information about Peregrine can be found at http://www.peregrineinc.com.

Safe Harbor Statement: Statements in this press release which are not purely historical, including statements regarding Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, representations, projections, plans or predictions of the future are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the risk that the Company will not be able to enroll a sufficient number of patients to complete the clinical study, the risk that enrollment will be slower than expected, the risk that the results from the clinical study will not be consistent with the results from the previous clinical studies supporting the potential efficacy of Cotara in brain cancer, and the un
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