Oral Mucositis

Company receives fast-track designation for CG53135

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 27th, 2004

CuraGen Corp. (CRGN) has received fast-track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CG53135, a protein therapeutic being developed for the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis (OM).

Under the FDA-granted designation CG53135 will be investigated for the prevention of OM in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) following myeloablative chemotherapy with or without total body irradiation (TBI).

"Oral mucositis is a serious and debilitating side effect resulting from the chemotherapy and radiation used in the treatment of cancer. Patients receiving a bone marrow transplant who develop oral...

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