Aphton's Chief Medical Officer Delivers Keynote Address at the 15th International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment BIOWIRE2K MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2004 Aphton Corporation (Nasdaq:APHT APHT Advance Physical Test ) today announced that its Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer, Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.D., delivered the keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. in a symposium on "Shifting Paradigms In GI Oncology." The presentation took place yesterday at the 15th "International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment" in Paris, France, attended by leading clinicians and drug companies from Europe, the United States and Japan. The title of his address was "Molecular Biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller of Upper GI Cancers: a Clinical Perspective." In his talk Dr. Michaeli surveyed the recent developments in understanding the molecular basis of stomach and esophageal cancers, and proposed a new basis for developing combination therapies for these cancers. In this context, Dr. Michaeli's address focused on gastrin, the target of Aphton's product candidate G17DT, and the central role that gastrin plays in the onset, growth, proliferation and metastasis metastasis /me·tas·ta·sis/ (me-tas´tah-sis) pl. metas´tases 1. transfer of disease from one organ or part of the body to another not directly connected with it, due either to transfer of pathogenic microorganisms or to of upper gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas. Aphton Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company developing products using its innovative targeted immunotherapy technology for neutralizing hormones that participate in gastrointestinal system gastrointestinal system: see digestive system. and reproductive system reproductive system, in animals, the anatomical organs concerned with production of offspring. In humans and other mammals the female reproductive system produces the female reproductive cells (the eggs, or ova) and contains an organ in which development of the fetus cancer and non-cancer diseases. Aphton has strategic alliances with Aventis Pasteur for treating gastrointestinal system and other cancers with G17DT in North America and Europe; GlaxoSmithKline for reproductive system cancer and non-cancer diseases worldwide. |
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