SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:HALO), a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products targeting the extracellular matrix, today announced the presentation of positive pre-clinical animal efficacy data for PEGPH20 (pegylated-rHuPH20 enzyme) monotherapy at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Advances in Prostate Cancer Research meeting in San Diego. The study demonstrated that repeat intravenous treatment with PEGPH20 as a single agent in the PC3 mouse model resulted in approximately 70% (p=0.001) tumor growth inhibition compared to controls.
