CALGARY, April 23 /CNW/ - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics")
(TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that Prof. Alan Melcher and his
research group at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, U.K. published the
results of their work with reovirus in the May 1, 2008 online issue of The
Journal of Immunology. The paper is entitled "Reovirus Activates Human
Dendritic Cells to Promote Innate Antitumor Immunity."