VANCOUVER, Canada— iCo Therapeutics Inc. (TSX-V: ICO) is pleased to announce that the Company’s Diabetic Macular Edema (“DME”) candidate, iCo-007, will be highlighted in a presentation at “Angiogenesis 2010: Clinical Trials” (website: http://bascompalmer.org/site/info/pdf/Angiogenesis_2010_brochure.pdf ).
The conference will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami Florida and will feature prominent scientists, clinicians and healthcare experts in neovascular diseases of the eye, including age related macular degeneration and DME. Slides will be available for viewing on iCo’s website.
The primary endpoint of the open label, dose escalating trial is safety, with visual acuity and measures of retinal thickness serving as secondary endpoints. Four U.S. clinical sites are participating.
About iCo-007
Designed and discovered by ISIS Pharmaceuticals Inc., (NASDAQ: ISIS), iCo-007 is a second-generation antisense drug targeting c-Raf kinase for the treatment of DME and diabetic retinopathy.
About iCo Therapeutics
iCo Therapeutics Inc. is a Vancouver-based reprofiling company focused on redosing or reformulating drugs with clinical history for new or expanded indications. iCo has exclusive worldwide rights to three products: iCo-007, in Phase I for the treatment of DME, iCo-008; a product with Phase II clinical history to be developed for severe ocular allergies; and iCo-009, an oral formulation of Amphotericin B for sight and life – threatening diseases. iCo-009 also represents a new drug delivery technology with the potential to reprofile other parenteral administered drugs to the oral route of administration. iCo Therapeutics trades on the TSX-Venture exchange under the symbol ?ICO?. For more information, visit the company website at: icotherapeutics.cdmail.biz
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