San Diego-based Aethlon
Medical creates medical devices geared toward meeting unmet medical needs in
cancer, infectious disease, and other life-threatening diseases such as Ebola.
Among other technologies in the company’s product pipeline is the Aethlon
Hemopurifier®. Named by Time Magazine as one of the best 25 inventions of 2014,
the first-in-class bio-filtration device is designed to literally filter
viruses and toxins from the blood of infected individuals.
So far the device has been
used for the treatment of HIV, Hepatitis C and Ebola. In human studies the
Hemopurifier® safely provided average viral load reductions of more than 50%
during four-hour treatment periods in both HCV and HIV infected individuals without
the administration of antiviral drugs. In vitro studies have also documented
that the Hemopurifier captures exosomes underlying cancer, including
colorectal, lymphoma, melanoma, ovarian, and breast cancer.
Earlier this year the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration approved testing of the device on an Ebola patient
in Germany with multiple organ failure; the testing was a success and the
patient later recovered. To read Time’s coverage of the incident, visit:
http://time.com/3586271/ebola-treatment-dialysis-blood/. The FDA’s approval
allows for Aethlon to conduct Ebola studies in up to 20 infected subjects in
the United States.
In late February, Aethlon
reported that the first patient enrolled in its FDA-approved feasibility study
completed the full Hemopurifier treatment protocol without any device-related
adverse effects. The study is being administered in Houston to 10 chronic
dialysis patients infected with Hepatitis C. Overseas, the Hemopurifier is
being tested in India for its efficacy to speed-up viral load depletion when
used in combination with hepatitis C standard-of-care drug therapy. Aethlon has
reported that of the 10 patients that completed the full treatment protocol,
five achieved a rapid virologic response (RVR), which represents the clinical
endpoint that best predicts sustained virologic response (SVR) cure rates in
patients who are unable to tolerate normally administered doses of antiviral
drugs or pegiterferon+ribavirin (PR) therapy.
For more information,
visit www.aethlonmedical.com
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