Lpath gets $2 million milestone form Merck KGaA on completing Asonep Ph I study, but rejects opt-in extension

31 March 2010

California, USA-based lipidomics-based therapeutics Lpath has announced positive summary results of its dose-escalation Phase I clinical trial of the investigational drug Asonep (sonepcizumab/LT1009) in cancer patients with a wide variety of solid tumors.

Study results included demonstration that lymphocyte counts in the vascular space were reduced in a dose-related fashion. As such, Lpath achieved an objective established by the drug's licensee, German major Merck KGaA, and received a $2 million payment according to the terms of Lpath's license agreement with the latter.

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