Advanced Viral Research (ADVR) is Granted US Patent for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Advanced Viral Research Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADVR) a bio-pharmaceutical company, announced today that effective June 27, 2006, the company has received US patent approval for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by administering Product R (AVR118), a peptide-nucleic acid preparation. Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory illness, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks normal tissue components as if they were invading pathogens. This illness affects about one percent of the world's population.
"We are excited that the US Patent Office has granted us with this important patent," says Stephen M. Elliston, CEO and President of Advanced Viral Research. "With such a large population affected by rheumatoid arthritis, the commercial prospects for AVR118 may potentially be expanded to include patients suffering from this debilitating disease. This also comes at a time when the treatment options for RA have been limited significantly by the withdrawal of COX II inhibitors from the market."
Advanced Viral Research Corp., based in Yonkers, New York, is a biopharmaceutical firm dedicated to improving patients' lives by researching, developing and bringing to market new and effective therapies for viral and other diseases. ADVR's lead product, AVR118 (formerly known as Product R), represents a complex mixture of peptides, amino acids, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acid bases that possesses, among other things, immunomodulatory activity. We believe it may be employed in the treatment of diseases and conditions such as: Various conditions associated with cancer; cachexia, or body wasting, in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, including AIDS as a combination therapy; type 2 diabetes; human papilloma virus, or HPV; and rheumatoid arthritis. ADVR is in clinical trials for treatment of cachexia (body wasting) in patients with AIDS. |
