oxford biomedica

Oxford, UK – 1 June 2009: Oxford BioMedica (LSE: OXB), a leading gene therapy company, today announces updated results from open-label Phase I/II and II trials of TroVax in metastatic colorectal cancer and metastatic renal cancer. TroVax is Oxford BioMedica’s therapeutic cancer vaccine that targets the 5T4 tumour antigen. Two cross-trial analyses were presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Orlando, Florida. In all trials, TroVax was well tolerated with no serious adverse events attributed to vaccination.

Oxford, UK – 29 April 2009: Oxford BioMedica (LSE: OXB) announced today that it has entered into a new collaboration with sanofi-aventis to develop novel gene-based medicines, utilising the Company’s LentiVector® gene delivery technology, for the treatment of ocular diseases. Oxford BioMedica will receive an upfront payment of US$26 million (£18 million) and committed funding of up to a further US$24 million (£16 million) over three years. In addition, sanofi-aventis has an exclusive option for a worldwide licence to develop and commercialise four ocular products.