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DewDiligence

09/11/06 2:49 PM

#33861 RE: RockRat #33859

Re: Acuity Pharma

>If the safety is better, and the cost lower (should be), the drug could indeed have a potential role. I could see a treatment regimen in which a patient is started with Lucentis, then given Bevasiranib, or perhaps both at once. It will take more studies than Acuity would hope, though.<

Bevasiranib is not yet dead, but it’s on life support, IMO. There is no commercial market for an AMD drug whose efficacy is as marginal as these results—even in a “maintenance” regimen. They will have to show something better in the next trial or pack it in.
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DewDiligence

09/11/06 3:02 PM

#33865 RE: RockRat #33859

>I agree there is a fair amount of spin in that PR.<

I’m LOL at your understatement—the PR header described these results as positive!

Perhaps Acuity Pharma borrowed a page from GENR.