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rkrw

03/13/09 4:12 PM

#74413 RE: wallstarb #74410

I took a brief look at Curd's background and since Genentech I see:

Vaxgen: failed
Novacea: failed
Maxygen Vaccines: failed
Threshold: ?

Not saying i have any idea if the failures were his fault or implying threshold will bomb too, but just because he was at Genentech when they had success is no validation for what he's doing since.
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nuere

03/13/09 4:24 PM

#74415 RE: wallstarb #74410

Thank you for bringing THLD to my attention. I'm long time "follower" of oxigene and I immediately got interested in THLD when I saw your posts. There is data coming out (see for instance recent papers in Cancer Cell) that anti-angiogenic drugs can make tumors more aggressive due to the hypoxic situation they create. This could potentially be a problem for VDAs as well. A HPA could be a very useful addition to an anti-angiogenic/VDA regiment.