PCI Biotech file patents for combination of siRNA and the PCI technology
Oslo, Norway, March 19, 2007 Photocure's daughter company PCI Biotech is developing a proprietary technology for site-specific drug delivery and drug enhancement called Photochemical Internalisation (PCI). PCI Biotech has, according to an agreement with Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF, filed two patent applications covering the combination of siRNA (short interfering RNA) and the PCI technology. PCI Biotech plans to explore this field of the PCI-technology and will sponsor a dedicated research position within this field the next three years. The siRNA molecule may be used to