( JERSEY CITY N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May...)Lux Biosciences' Investigational Therapy for Uveitis, LX211, is,Subject of Two Presentations at Key Ophthalmology Meeting, ARVO,2007,Health

JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2007 - Lux Biosciences, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company specialized in the field of ophthalmic diseases, announced today that the company's next-generation calcineurin inhibitor, LX211, is the subject of two presentations at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, being held May 6-10 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The first, an oral presentation being given on May 5 during a satellite session of the American Uveitis Society by Quan Dong Nguyen, M.D. of the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Hospitals, discusses the design of the ongoing LUMINATE (Lux Uveitis Multicenter Investigation of a New Approach to TrEatment) Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial Program. The three LUMINATE trials represent the first clinical development program aimed at supporting regulatory approval of a corticosteroid-sparing immunosuppressive agent in different types of sight-threatening, non-infectious uveitis.

The second, a poster presentation by Matthew A. Cunningham, senior medical student, senior author Robert Nussenblatt, MD, and collaborators from the National Eye Institute, Lux Biosciences, and Isotechnika, Inc., discusses preclinical data demonstrating the ability of subcutaneous injections of LX211 to prevent and reverse experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU) in rats. Cunningham commented, "We observed that in this animal model, LX211 could both prevent the onset of disease as well as reverse EAU at doses as low as 10 mg/kg. These preclinical results clearly support our view that LX211 may play an important future role in the treatment of uveitis."

The poster describes the induction of EAU in rats, which were then divided into three groups, designated preventative, therapeutic, and vehicle-control. Animals in the first two groups received daily subcutaneous injections of either cyclosporine A (CsA) at 40 mg/kg
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