AAP business reporter Trevor Chappell investigates Starpharma’s positive results for its Phase II trial of VivaGel to prevent recurring bacterial vaginosis (R-BV). The results demonstrated a reduced overall risk of R-BV.

"The commercial opportunity for recurrent BV is very attractive, with an estimated market of more than $1 billion," said Starpharma CEO Dr Jackie Fairley.

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Starpharma  today announced the positive results of its exploratory Phase 2 study of VivaGel^® for the prevention of recurrent bacterial vaginosis (R-BV).  The results showed a reduced overall risk of R-BV during the study in patients using 1% VivaGel^® and time to first recurrence was delayed compared with placebo.

Herald Sun’s In The Black columnist, John Beveridge reported on Starpharma and its collaboration with Nufarm and Israel’s Makhreshim Agan, trading in Australia as Farmoz. These collaborations are a vote of confidence to the versatility of Starpharma’s dendrimer technology. "Dendrimers, nanoparticles that can greatly improve water solubility, are ideally suited to improving farming chemicals. In the case of weedkillers such as glyphosate, the addition of the right sort of dendrimer at the right levels can make the weedkiller much faster and more effective to use and able to be applied close to rain. For other agricultural chemicals the advantage is even greater, allowing the removal of dangerous solvents used to make theactive ingredient soluble and allowing the production of concentrates that are much easier to transport and can be mixed with water on site."

Starpharma Holdings Ltd and Makhteshim Agan Group today announced a collaboration program. This will see Starpharma’s Priostar® dendrimer technology applied to novel crop protection formulations across Makhteshim Agan’s extensive product portfolio.

Herald Sun reporters Brigid O’Connell, Lucie van den Berg and Grant McArthur featured Starpharma in a special report in The Herald Sun and The Australian online, examining cutting edge medical research being done in Melbourne.

"The home of corporate giants CSL, Mesoblast, Acrux, Biota and Starpharma, Melbourne also dominates in taking the laboratory to the marketplace: more than 85 products were on the market last year and dozens more were in trials in hopes of delivering the next generation of medical advances."

Starpharma today announced the results of an animal study which shows that a dendrimer-based formulation of doxorubicin was substantially more efficacious in treating secondary tumours of breast cancer (metastases) in lungs than the drug alone.

Starpharma today released its interim report and financial results for the half-year ended 31 December 2012.

Financial Highlights

• Reported loss $1.8M (Dec 2011: $4.7 million)
• R&D tax incentives of $6.8M reported in the half-year
• Cash position at 31 December 2012 $33.2M
• R&D tax incentive receivables at 31 December 2012 $8.1M

Starpharma today released its Appendix 4C - Quarterly Cashflow Report for the period ended 31 December 2012.

The Herald Sun’s Chief Business Writer John Beveridge investigates some of the best strategies to make money on the stock market and profiles Starpharma as having potential, following the results of its Phase III trial for VivaGel as a treatment for BV:

All is not lost, though, because VivaGel still has potential to become the most effective treatment for the complaint and the company's dendrimer technology has numerous other lucrative applications.

In this issue:

›  Phase 3 clinical trial results for treatment of bacterial vaginosis

› Rapid resolution of symptoms; strong patient acceptability for VivaGel^®

› Taxotere’s anti-cancer effect boosted with Starpharma’s dendrimer technology

› Turning over a new leaf in the world of agrochemicals

› Starpharma wins Janssen Company of the Year Award

Download: Shareholder Update: December 2012 ( pdf file, 1MB)