Press Release Source: Adeona Pharmaceuticals, Inc. On Monday September 19, 2011, 8:57 am EDT
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Adeona Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a developer of innovative medicines for serious central nervous system diseases, announced today that the 150th patient has been enrolled in the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center clinical trial of its Trimesta™ (oral estriol) drug candidate for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) in women, per the original protocol. The Company also announced that Rhonda Voskuhl, M.D., Director, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Multiple Sclerosis Program, UCLA Department of Neurology, and lead Principal Investigator of this Phase II clinical trial, has funding available to continue enrollment at all 15 centers, therefore, increasing the power of the trial. It is anticipated that the remaining grant funding will allow for the enrollment of an additional 10-20 patients.
“We are excited to announce the enrollment of the 150th MS patient in this clinical trial, achieving our original targeted goal for enrollment. I am also very pleased that we have funds available to continue enrolling additional patients in this landmark MS trial,” said Dr. Voskuhl. “Of the 400,000 people in the U.S. afflicted with MS, approximately 85% are initially diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS, which is characterized by relapses, or attacks of declining neurologic function, followed by periods of remission. As we continue to dose and monitor each MS patient enrolled in the trial over a two year period, we would expect to demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in the rate of relapses in the patients treated with oral Trimesta.”
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