PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrowhead Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ARWR) announced today that Dr. Thomas Schluep, Chief Scientific Officer of Insert Therapeutics, a majority owned subsidiary of Arrowhead, will present at the Nanotech for Investors Summit at the Nano Science and Technology Institute 2007 Conference on May 21, 2007 in Santa Clara, California. Dr. Schluep’s presentation, entitled “Insert Therapeutics Product Development Update,” will highlight Insert’s technical and clinical progress in using its proprietary polymeric transport system, CyclosertTM, to design, develop and commercialize nanoparticle-enhanced small-molecule therapeutics. Insert’s lead drug candidate, a combination of its linear, cyclodextrin-based polymer and the anti-cancer compound camptothecin, entered the clinic in 2006.
