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From Biomed Reports:
On 8/4/09, Biomoda (BMOD.OB) ($0.23) announced that 500 New Mexico veterans have committed to participate in a state-funded program for the detection of early-stage lung cancer based on the Company’s proprietary technology, which is currently in development as an inexpensive, simple, and highly accurate in-vitro test for early detection of lung cancer. The assay is based upon Biomoda’s patent estate centered on molecular marker technology, originally developed at Los Alamos National Labs. Internal validation testing results have shown near 100% accuracy of the assay with no false positives or false negatives. Eventual commercial level accuracy in the 90% range is to be reasonably expected compared to PAP staining which is 64% accurate.

Biomoda submitted a Pre-IDE to the FDA who responded favorably, and the Company’s Phase 2 Clinical Trial is underway as part of a larger screening program[/B] in partnership with the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services (NMDVS) and New Mexico Tech (NMT) to screen veterans for lung cancer in New Mexico. Biomoda has enrolled over 500 participants in the program and have run more than 90 through the collection procedure with results of this 300+ patient study expected in the fall of 2009 (the 10/31/09 date for this entry is only an estimate within this timeframe). The study will be expanded to 3,500 patients thereafter as a Phase 3 Pivotal Clinical Trial, with results of the larger study expected in 2010. Biomoda and NMT are developing an automated technology to support large-population screening for cancer. Results from these studies will be sufficient to submit to FDA for final approval as a Class III PMA IVO device, which is expected to occur in 2011.

From Trading Markets:
August 7, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Biomoda, Inc. (OTCBB: BMOD), the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM Tech) appeared before the State Legislature's Interim Tobacco Settlement Committee to report that 500 New Mexico veterans have committed to participate in a state-funded program for the detection of early-stage lung cancer based on Biomoda's proprietary technology.
John Cousins, Biomoda president and CEO, told the legislators that the $1.65 million appropriated for the screening program has raised awareness among New Mexico veterans of the U.S. armed forces about their increased risk for developing lung cancer and the importance of early detection. Of the 500 volunteers for the program, more than 100 have completed the screening.
Biomoda's diagnostic is based on a patented molecular marker originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory that preferentially binds to cancerous or aberrant cells and causes them to fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Under the guidance of a respiratory therapist, study volunteers provide a deep-lung sputum sample to be processed with Biomoda's CyPath(r) assay in the Biomoda lab. Results are compared to a CT scan and PAP stains read by cytopathologists to confirm accuracy.
"This study will help us move the CyPath(r) technology closer to FDA approval and commercialization, bringing a non-invasive, accurate, and inexpensive tool for detecting cancer to market," Cousins said. "The health benefits of the Biomoda diagnostic are obvious and have worldwide implications."

There was a huge run up after BMOD was profiled in a few investor newsletters, including Stockshaven.

Good News For ARIA

Aug 24, 2009, 7:35 a.m. EST
ARIAD And Its Co-Plaintiffs Announce That the Court of Appeals Granted Their Petition for Rehearing En Banc In the Lilly NF-kB Patent Lawsuit CAMBRIDGE,
Mass., Aug 24, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARIA 2.27, +0.15, +7.08%) and its co-plaintiffs today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the "Federal Circuit") has granted their petition for rehearing en banc and has vacated its April 2009 decision in the appeal that Eli Lilly and Co. filed in 2008. All twelve judges of the Federal Circuit will now rehear and reassess the merits of Lilly's appeal. This decision by the Federal Circuit concerns a judgment holding Lilly liable for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,410,516 (the '516 patent) licensed to ARIAD by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. ARIAD is the exclusive licensee of the technology and patents. In 2006, the jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (the "District Court") ruled unanimously in favor of the plaintiffs and found that the claims of the NF-kB patent asserted in the lawsuit are valid and infringed by Lilly with respect to Lilly's osteoporosis drug, Evista(R) and Lilly's septic shock drug, Xigris(R). The jury awarded damages to the plaintiffs based on U.S. sales of these two drugs through the year 2019, when the patent expires. The jury verdict was then upheld in 2007 by Judge Rya W. Zobel of the District Court who also found in favor of the plaintiffs.