( THE WOODLANDS Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--...)Opexa Therapeutics Reports Positive Top-line Data in Phase I/II,Extension Trial with Tovaxin for Multiple Sclerosis,Health

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 21, 2007 - Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXA), a company involved in the development and commercialization of cell therapies, today announced positive top-line data in an open-label Phase I/II extension clinical trial of the investigational T-cell vaccine, Tovaxin(TM), for multiple sclerosis (MS). In this one-year, 8-subject extension clinical trial of relapsing remitting (RRMS) and secondary progressive (SPMS) subjects, Tovaxin therapy was shown to be safe and effective. The "per-protocol" analysis of Tovaxin therapy achieved a 92% reduction in annualized relapse rate (ARR) in subjects who received two treatment doses of 30 - 45 x 10(6) attenuated T-cells eight weeks apart and were monitored for an additional 44 weeks. Subjects in the extension study had previously been treated an average of 5.2+/-1.8 (1, 8; median 5.4) years earlier at Baylor College of Medicine under the direction of Jingwu Zhang, M.D., Ph.D with a T-cell vaccine developed from myelin basic protein (MBP) reactive T-cells. The safety profile revealed only injection site mild reactions and no severe adverse reactions related to T-cell vaccination.

Both Phase I/II clinical studies have demonstrated that T-cell vaccination depletes myelin reactive T-cells in peripheral blood. In the extension study patient population, the myelin reactive T-cell frequencies were reduced by 84% and 72% at 6 and 12 months on study, respectively. Reductions in myelin reactive T-cell frequencies in the dose escalation study were 76.7% and 64.8% at 6 and 12 months on study, respectively.

All subjects currently are enrolled in a retreatment extension study to collect longitudinal safety and effectiveness data.

Effectiveness data for the 13 RRMS subjects across the two Phase I/II trials showed an 80% reduction in ARR. The Expanded Disability Scoring Scale (EDSS) for the RRMS subjects for a 0.5 point effect was
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