<<It's a legitimate question to ask "How many little pieces of pie do we have to cut to demonstrate the product works before it can be used for the whole circle?" That's yet to be seen. But as you can see by the indications shown, we are gradually going around the circle. Its a long process, but one that gives us a better possibility of winning in the end, instead of trying to get it all in one bite.>>
Xoma doesn't do the little pieces of the pie. What Xoma does is get BPI approved for one clear indication. Once this is done, the entire scientific community can start applying BPI in other clinical settings for other, off label, indications.
The classic case of this being done is Amgen's Epogen. It's labelled for end stage renal disease anemia. But has been applied, successfully I might add, to many other anemias. See "Use of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin outside the Setting of Uremia" in Blood, Vol 89, No 12,(June 15), 1997: pp 4248-4267.
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Jack Simmons |
