( LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 25 2...)CytRx Announces Clinical Results from Its Rising Multiple Dose,Trial with Arimoclomol for ALS,Health

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 25, 2007 - CytRx Corporation (NASDAQ:CYTR), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of human therapeutics, today reported safety and tolerability results from its previously announced double-blind, placebo-controlled, rising multiple dose clinical trial in healthy volunteers with its drug candidate arimoclomol. CytRx believes that the results of this trial support the use of arimoclomol in future clinical trials, including its ALS Phase IIb clinical trial, at doses up to six-fold higher than that used in its previous Phase IIa clinical trials for ALS.

CytRx plans to begin its Phase IIb clinical trial in the second half of this year, subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance. As previously announced, this trial, planned to include approximately 390 ALS patients enrolled at 30 to 35 U.S. and Canadian clinical sites, was designed to monitor changes in the progression of disease symptoms and would be completed about 18 months after the beginning of patient enrollment. Following consultation with the FDA, CytRx is now considering various options, including increasing the size and duration of the planned trial and/or conducting a second efficacy clinical trial for ALS, possibly in parallel with the Phase IIb trial, to provide additional data to support a possible approval decision by the FDA.

CytRx expects to announce results of its recently-completed six-month open-label extension trial with arimoclomol for ALS later this week.

"It is rewarding to see significant progress toward our goal of initiating the Phase IIb clinical trial for arimoclomol this year," stated CytRx's President and CEO Steven A. Kriegsman. "Based on the results of this clinical trial we plan to proceed with a dose that is four times greater than that used in our previous Phase IIa ALS clinical trials. These study results will help us optimize
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