SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OXiGENE, Inc. (Nasdaq:OXGN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer, announced today that investigators at the University of Florida presented encouraging clinical data using OXiGENE’s vascular disrupting agent (VDA), OXi4503, in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in Atlanta, Georgia. The data showed responses and a manageable safety profile in this first-in-man trial of a VDA in AML.
