SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 7, 2007 - Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), focused on the development of DNA vaccines for cancers and infectious diseases and a novel alternative to surgery to treat localized cancers, announced today that the company’s partner, Vical Incorporated, presented positive interim safety and tolerability data on 18 subjects from an ongoing Phase I clinical trial using Inovio’s electroporation technology for intratumoral delivery into melanoma tumors of plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding interleukin-2 (IL-2). The treatment demonstrated objective tumor responses in treated and untreated lesions. The data were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Chicago, June 1-5) by Jon M. Richards, M.D., Ph.D., Lutheran General Hospital Division of Hematology/Oncology. Inovio’s DNA delivery systems are designed to enhance the potency of DNA-based immunotherapies and vaccines against infectious diseases and cancers.
