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Cancer Gene Therapy

p53 Trials Expanded to Europe and Japan

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, February 24th, 1997

Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc. (RPR), Collegeville, Pennsylvania, announced plans to begin new p53 gene therapy clinical trials in both Europe and Japan.

"We are very pleased with the results, to date, of our collaboration with Introgen," said Thierry Soursac, M.D., Ph.D., RPR Gencell. "In 1997, RPR Gencell is planning to begin two Phase I trials in Europe for both head and neck cancer and hepatocellular cancer and, pending our review of the results of Introgen's ongoing Phase I trials, we plan to conduct a Phase II trial in North America for the treatment of head and neck cancer and possibly other tumor types."

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