Adeona Announces Additional $860,000 Grant for Oral Estriol Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Tria

Number of Clinical Sites Doubled to Speed Enrollment

January 08, 2010: 06:30 AM ET

Adeona Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (AMEX: AEN), a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to the awareness, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of zinc deficiency and chronic copper toxicity in the mature population, announced today that the ongoing clinical trial of its Trimesta(TM) (oral estriol) drug candidate being conducted by Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl, Director, UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Program, UCLA Dept. of Neurology has received an additional $860,440 in grant funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The current phase II/III clinical study is a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial taking place at sixteen sites in the US and will enroll up to 150 female Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Investigators will administer Trimesta along with glatimer acetate (Copaxone®), an FDA approved therapy for MS, to women between the ages of 18-50 who have been recently diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS. This ongoing clinical trial previously received a $5 million grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) in partnership with the National MS Society's Southern California chapter, with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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