BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 4/16/09 -- Power of the Dream Ventures, Inc. (OTC BB: PWRV), Hungary's premier technology acquisition and development company, is pleased to present this Genetic Immunity release, based on a previously announced agreement whereby Power of the Dream Ventures will issue communications for Genetic Immunity on an ongoing basis. Genetic Immunity is pleased to announce the commencement of an exploratory Phase II clinical trial of the Company's DermaVir Patch HIV nanomedicine vaccine lead product candidate being conducted at Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy. This Phase II, randomized, placebo-controlled trial is designed to investigate whether therapeutic immunization during highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) induces elevations of HIV-specific memory T cells in HIV-1-infected individuals, and whether the quantity of these memory T cells correlate with the viral load set point following analytical treatment interruption (ATI). Subjects are being randomized to receive either DermaVir Patch (8 subjects per cohort) or Placebo Patch (8 subjects per cohort) every four weeks for three applications while receiving maximally suppressive HAART. HAART will be discontinued at Week 9 for an ATI period of 20 weeks. The trial will employ a novel assay of memory T-cell function known as the PHPC (Precursors with High Proliferative Capacity) assay developed by ViroStatics, srl, the Italian partner of Genetic Immunity. "I look forward to obtaining results from this, our second in-progress Phase II trial for DermaVir. I believe results will be outstanding and closely correlate with those of our first Phase II trial underway in Germany and allow us to quickly move forward to Phase III in the not too distant future. When successful, DermaVir can become the first effective HIV immune-based treatment on the market within the next few years," commented Julianna Lisziewicz, CEO of Genetic Immunity. "The trial has the potential to indicate biomarkers of immune control of HIV. We are very glad we can test the hypothesis by employing DermaVir, one of the best immune-based product candidates available," added Franco Lori, Protocol Chair of the Trial. A total of 16 subjects will be enrolled and randomized to receive DermaVir Patch (8 subjects) or DermaVir Patch Placebo (8 subjects). As of the date of this press release three patients have already been enrolled. For more information please visit the Company’s official website at http://www.geneticimmunity.com or contact Zsolt Lisziewicz directly at +36-1-272-0364
Mihaly Zala At Genetic Immunity:
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