ANTISENSE PHARMA GmbH Promising Phase IIb Results of Targeted Therapy with AP 12009 in Recurrent Anaplastic Astrocytoma

CHICAGO and REGENSBURG - June 21, 2007 - “In anaplastic astrocytoma, AP 12009 as a monotherapy is actually clearly superior to temozolomide,” Prof. Albert Wong, M.D., Stanford University, California, U.S.A. commented on the international Phase IIb study with the TGF-beta 2-inhibitor AP 12009, under development by Antisense Pharma. Prof. Wong discussed the results of the study in the poster discussion session on central nervous system tumors at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clincal Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, USA, this month.