The Australian share market begins the week with a slightly stronger opening without being affected by a flat lead from Wall Street. In early trade, Gold and Financial stocks were positive after the opening bell.
Results released today from a Phase III trial of the drug SCENESSE (R), conducted by Melbourne-based Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CUV) (PINK:CLVLY), have shown that the drug has the ability to reduce and prevent painful phototoxic reactions experienced by patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP).
Melbourne's Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:CUV) (PINK:CLVLY) today signed with a commercial US partner to manufacture its world's first photoprotective drug, SCENESSE (R), under an exclusive arrangement. Following eight years of development, Clinuvel has selected Surmodics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRDX), a leading Minnesota-based provider of proprietary drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry, as its first manufacturing partner.
Ventracor Limited (ASX:VCR)(PINK:VTCRY) is responding to an article that appeared in today's "The Australian" newspaper, which in the Company's view makes incorrect and misleading allegations regarding the Company and its product the VentrAssist(R) Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).
Ventracor Limited (ASX:VCR)(US:VTCRY) today announced that there have now been more than 250 patient implants of the VentrAssist(R) Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).
Ventracor Limited (ASX:VCR)(US:VTCRY) today released the clinical results of the US Feasibility Trial of the VentrAssist(R) Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). The results were presented on Saturday 12 April at the annual meeting of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in Boston by Dr. Andrew Boyle, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, in Minneapolis MN.
Ventracor Limited (ASX: VCR)(PNK: VTCRY) CEO, Peter Crosby Letter to Shareholders
