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IMMUPHARMA APPOINTS WORLDWIDE KEY OPINION LEADERS
IMMUPHARMA APPOINTS WORLDWIDE KEY OPINION LEADERS.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 7772I Immupharma PLC 08 July 2013 \n\n \n \n \n\n \n8 July 2013\n \n \n \nImmuPharma PLC\n \nIMMUPHARMA APPOINTS WORLDWIDE KEY OPINION LEADERS TO SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FOR LUPUZOR PHASE III\n \n \nImmuPharma plc (LSE:IMM) (\"ImmuPharma\" or the \"Company\" or the \"Group\"), the specialist drug discovery and development company, is delighted to announce that it has appointed some of the world's most eminent physicians to provide scientific advice and support for Lupuzor's pivotal phase III programme.\n \nThe Five Scientific Advisory Board members are:\n \nDr. Daniel J. Wallace, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R (USA) \nAssociate Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Clinical Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Expert Reviewer, Medical Board of California.\n \nProf. David Isenberg, MD, FRCP, FAMS (U.K.)\nProfessor of Rheumatology, University College Hospital, London\n \nProf. Vibeke Strand, MD, FACP, FACR (USA)\nClinical Professor, Adjunct, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine\n \nProf. Cees GM Kallenberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Netherlands)\nProfessor, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen\n \nDr. Lee S. Simon, MD, FACP, FACR (USA)\nPrincipal, SDG LLC and former FDA Division Director\n \n \nCommenting on the announcement, Dr Robert Zimmer, President & Chief Scientific Officer of ImmuPharma, said: \"We are delighted and honoured to be associated and have the support of such a group of prominent physicians in the area of lupus. It has to be noted that Dan Wallace was a co-author of a publication Zimmer et al. ACR 2012 showing that Lupuzor was able to improve (according to the standard criteria) more than 60% of the patients after only 3 injections and that this number increased up to 80% in a sub-set of the patient population 3 months thereafter even without treatment. These results are by far the best ever seen in a Lupus study and are due to the novel mechanism of action of Lupuzor which tackles specifically the intrinsic biological events constitutive of the Lupus disease at a very upstream level, which is not the case for the currently approved Monoclon...