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Market:	ASX
Sector:	Pharma & Biotech
EPIC:	SPL
Latest Price:	1.37 (1.11% )
52-week High:	1.66
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Starpharma Holdings

Starpharma Holdings (ASX: SPL) is focused on the development of dendrimer nanotechnology for pharmaceutical, drug delivery and other applications. Products based on Starpharma’s dendrimer technology are already on the market as diagnostic elements and laboratory reagents through licence agreements.

Starpharma Holdings reports positve results from VivaGel® clinical trial

Friday, March 12, 2010

Australian pharmaceutical development company Starpharma Holdings (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRY) has received positive results from a clinical trial of the company's 3% SPL7013 Gel (VivaGel®) product.

It was found to be comparable in terms of safety and tolerability with its matched placebo when administered vaginally, twice daily for 14 days in sexually active women involved in the trial.

Starpharma CEO, Dr Jackie Fairley, said, the data from the study provided further evidence of the safety and tolerability of the VivaGel® active ingredient, SPL7013, and will support its development as both a stand-alone gel (bacterial vaginosis, genital herpes and HIV), and as a condom coating.

The study enrolled 61 healthy women who vaginally applied VivaGel®, a matched placebo gel without the SPL7013 active ingredient, or an alternative experimental placebo based on hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC).

Starpharma plans to commence further clinical studies of VivaGel®, including a phase 2 efficacy study in bacterial vaginosis, during 2010.

The clinical study was funded by the Division of AIDS (DAIDS), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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