Business Wire - November 18, 2005
CytoDyn is developing a family of targeted immune therapies for treating HIV/AIDS. Although targeted immune therapies are now a mainstream approach to treating cancer and autoimmune diseases, earlier efforts to develop an immune-based therapy for HIV/AIDS failed to show a significant reduction in viral burden. But in a small Phase II(a) study of the Company's first product, Cytolin, patients responded with a marked drop in viral burden, as reported by Donald W. Northfelt, MD, F.A.C.P. at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Infectious Diseases held last February in Boston, MA.
The Company's family of targeted immune therapies is based on a discovery made in the early 1990s by CytoDyn CEO Allen D. Allen, Joyce Zarling at the Seattle Primate Center, and Leonard Adelman at the University of Southern California, all working independently. HIV is an acronym for "Human Immunodeficiency Virus." The word "Human" is used to describe the virus because it does not cause disease in the other mammals it can infect. If the virus caused disease in the other mammals it can infect, then it would be called the "Mammalian Immunodeficiency Virus." Allen, et al discovered why only humans get sick when infected by HIV. This new knowledge paved the way for a scientific approach to developing an immune therapy for HIV/AIDS.
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CONTACT: CytoDyn, Inc.
Corinne Allen, 505-988-5520
www.cytodyn.com
SOURCE: CytoDyn, Inc.
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