Celsion Corporation Announces Collaboration With University Of Oxford To Design And Execute Clinical Trial

Celsion Corporation announced a collaboration with the University of Oxford to begin a clinical study of ThermoDox, Celsion's heat-activated liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin, in combination with ultrasound-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) to treat metastatic liver cancer. The early phase clinical study is being finalized and will require approval from a local Ethics Committee. Treatment of the first patient is targeted for late 2012. The trial, which is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, will be carried out as a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Celsion, the Oxford University Institute of Biomedical Engineering (Prof. Coussios), and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (Prof. Fergus Gleeson, Radiology, Prof. Mark Middleton, Oncology, and Dr. Tom Leslie, clinical HIFU Unit).