Latest Maribavir Stories

EXTON, Pa., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM) today announced that Vincent Milano, president and chief executive officer of ViroPharma, will provide an overview of the company's business, including additional maribavir clinical trial data, during the 31(st) Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The presentation will be webcast live at 6:30 P.M. ET (3:30 P.M. PT) on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 and may be accessed via the company's website at...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth I. Moch will present at the 2012 Therapeutic Area Partnerships meeting in Boston, MA. His presentation will include an update on the company's clinical pipeline, including its lead development compound, CMX001, which was named by conference organizers a "Top 10...

EXTON, Pa., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (NASDAQ: VPHM) today announced the initiation of a Phase 2 program to evaluate maribavir for the treatment of cytomegalovirus infections in transplant recipients. The planned program will consist of two independent Phase 2 clinical studies that will include subjects at different ends of the spectrum of CMV infection or disease, namely those who have asymptomatic CMV, and those who have failed therapy with other anti-CMV...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel antiviral therapeutics, today announced positive results from CMX001 Study 201, a Phase 2 study evaluating CMX001 for the prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients. CMX001 is a broad spectrum Lipid-Antiviral-Conjugate completing Phase 2 clinical development for the prevention of CMV in HCT recipients. In CMX001...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel antiviral therapeutics, today announced that final data from CMX001 Study 201, a Phase 2 study evaluating CMX001 for the prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV), has been accepted for oral presentation at the BMT Tandem Meetings on February 1-5, 2012, in San Diego, California. CMX001 is a broad spectrum, Lipid-Antiviral-Conjugate completing Phase 2 clinical...

LONDON, February 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Leading Collaboration Between Cell Medica, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, University of Birmingham and NHS Blood and Transplant Cell Medica, a leading UK cellular therapeutics company that develops, manufactures and markets cellular immunotherapy products for the treatment of infectious disease and cancer, announces today that the first patient has been treated in the CMV~ACE/ASPECT trial at University College Hospital London....

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, today announced the initiation of a multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial designed to evaluate CMX001 in stem cell transplant recipients who are seropositive for cytomegalovirus (CMV). CMX001 is a broad-spectrum antiviral agent with demonstrated activity against double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses. The Phase 2 randomized, double-blind,...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc. USA, a leader in adult stem cell research and manufacturing, has requested a pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to discuss a proposed IND to use Stemedica's proprietary line of allogeneic mesenchymal bone marrow cells (adult human) as a treatment for ischemic stroke. Stroke is a leading cause of adult impairment, with 20% of stroke survivors requiring...

-- Quarter Highlighted by Cinryze(TM) [C1 Inhibitor (human)] Commercial Launch -- EXTON, Pa., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM) reported today its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008. Key events since September 30, 2008 include: Operational: Closed on acquisition of Lev Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Lev) in October 2008;Initiated commercial launch of Cinryze for routine prophylaxis of hereditary angioedema...

EXTON, Pa., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM) today announced that its Phase 3 trial evaluating maribavir used as prophylaxis against cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in liver transplant patients has been discontinued, and that all patients on study drug are being moved to the current standard of care. The decision was made based on the results of the Phase 3 study of maribavir in stem cell transplant patients, and the recommendation from our independent...