Subject: Studies Show Effectiveness Of Drug Delivery System
Date: Published: 5/27/92 (32 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Technology Brief -- Liposome Technology Inc.:
    Studies Show Effectiveness
    Of Drug Delivery System

    Liposome Technology Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., said animal
 studies showed its long-term liposome-based delivery system
 for anti-cancer drugs was more effective than either
 conventional liposome delivery systems or injection of the
 drugs.
    The company's animal studies of its so-called Stealth
 long-term liposome delivery system were conducted with
 university researchers in New York, California and Edmonton,
 Alberta.
    The long-term system increased effectiveness of delivery
 of four agents used to treat leukemias, lymphomas, and colon
 and mammary cancers in test animals, said Frank Martin, the
 company's vice president, research.  The system uses
 slow-release fatty capsule to deliver drugs.  Both
 conventional liposome capsules and injections release drugs
 more rapidly.
    Liposome Technology is also conducting first-stage tests
 of the capsules for the Food and Drug Administration to
 deliver the drug Doxil to AIDS patients with Kaposi's
 sarcoma.

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