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PEG-INTRON A Advances To Phase III Clinical Trials

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 18th, 1997

Enzon, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, announced that Schering-Plough Corp. has advanced PEG-INTRON A, long-acting dose formulation, to Phase III clinical trials for hepatitis C in the United States and Europe.

PEG-INTRON A is a modified form of Schering-Plough's INTRON A (interferon alfa-2b, recombinant), developed by Enzon to have longer-acting properties. In this Phase III program, PEG-INTRON A administered once a week, is compared to INTRON A at the licensed regimen, which is currently three times a week. Enzon currently has two U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved products on the market that use this PEG Modification technology.

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