SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 11, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OXiGENE, Inc. (Nasdaq:OXGN), a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer and eye diseases, announced today that clinical investigators have enrolled the first patient in a randomized Phase 2 trial of ZYBRESTAT in combination with bevacizumab in patients with relapsed ovarian cancer. The study, which is being conducted by investigators from the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), is expected to enroll approximately 105 patients with a primary endpoint of progression-free survival. OXiGENE expects results of the study to become available in early 2013.
