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Champions Biotechnology and PinnacleCare Enter Into Personalized Oncology Collaboration Agreement

Oct 24 2011 11:21 AM

PinnacleCare To Offer Champions’ Personalized Oncology Services To Members Worldwide

Champions Biotechnology, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CSBR), a company whose personalized oncology services division assists physicians by providing personalized treatment options for their cancer patients, has entered into a collaboration agreement with PinnacleCare, the pioneer and the leading private health advisory company in the world.

PinnacleCare will offer Champions’ personalized oncology services to its members worldwide who have been diagnosed with cancer. Access to Champions’ services will benefit PinnacleCare members, and their physicians, in evaluating personalized options to improve treatment outcomes. Champions’ services offered to PinnacleCare members will include:

  1. Personalized Oncology Panels™ comprised of world-renowned experts assembled to assist the client’s physician in determining the optimal treatment, and
  2. Personalized Tumorgrafts™ developed from fragments of the client’s living tumor that are surgically removed, propagated and tested to evaluate the effectiveness of potential treatment drugs.

Through this collaboration, Champions will also offer PinnacleCare’s health advisory services to Champions clients. These services include:

  1. A PinnacleCare health advisor available globally and 24/7 answering client questions, coordinating healthcare schedules, explaining options, arranging treatments, assisting with individual medical experts, staff, and bureaucracies, and available to attend important appointments, and
  2.  PinnacleCare Electronic Health Records including collection, organization, and physician review of client medical records, with all records kept up-to-date and available instantly anywhere in the world for the client and his/her expert healthcare team.

“Champions Personalized Oncology Panels and its Personalized Tumorgraft technology are exactly the kind of cutting edge programs that PinnacleCare seeks for its members,” PinnacleCare Chief Medical Officer, Dr Miles Varn, said. “We believe that the Champions approach to personalized oncology will be of great benefit to our current and prospective members through programs that evaluate treatment options based on the very unique characteristics of each patient’s cancer.”

“PinnacleCare and Champions personalized oncology services complement each other like hand and glove,” said Doug Burkett, Ph.D., President of Champions Biotechnology, Inc. “This collaboration will enable us to educate many more physicians regarding our services and assist many more individuals with cutting edge research to personalize their cancer treatment. It will also enhance the individualized services for our clients and provide instant access to state-of-the-art electronic healthcare records for them and their expert healthcare team. We look forward to working closely with PinnacleCare in this high potential collaboration.”

About PinnacleCare

PinnacleCare is the world’s leading private health advisory company, providing its members with teams of dedicated advisors to manage family and executive health care, access world-renowned specialists, provide access to the world’s most advanced medical research, coordinate appointments, collect and maintain medical records with PinnacleCare’s Electronic Health Records solution and help members enact proven preventive strategies for optimum longevity and health. PinnacleCare serves 3,000 members worldwide and has offices throughout the United States and London. For more information, visit www.PinnacleCare.com.

About Champions Oncology, Inc.

Champions Oncology, Inc. (formerly Champions Biotechnology, Inc) is engaged in the development of advanced technology solutions and services to personalize the development and use of oncology drugs. The Company’s Tumorgraft™ Technology Platform is a novel approach to personalizing cancer care based upon the implantation of primary human tumors in immune deficient mice followed by propagation of the resulting engraftments, or Tumorgrafts™, in a manner that preserves the biological characteristics of the original human tumor. The Company uses this technology in conjunction with related services to offer solutions for two customer groups: Personalized Oncology Solutions (“POS”) in which physicians and patients looking for information help guide the development of personalized treatment plans, and Translational Oncology Solutions (“TOS”) in which pharmaceutical and biotech companies seeking personalized approaches to drug development can lower the cost and increase the speed of developing new drugs and increasing the adoption of existing drugs. The Company’s Tumorgraft™ Technology Platform consists of processes, physical tumors and information that we use to personalize the development and use of oncology drugs. The Company is building its Tumorgraft™ Technology Platform through the procurement, development and characterization of numerous Tumorgrafts™ within each of several cancer types. Tumorgrafts™ are procured through agreements with a number of institutions in the U.S. and overseas as well as through its POS business. The Tumorgrafts™ are developed and tested through agreement with a United States-based preclinical facility.

The Company provides POS to oncologists by establishing and administering expert tumor panels for their patients to analyze medical records and test results, to assist in understanding conventional and experimental options and to identify and arrange for testing, analysis and study of the patients’ cancer tissues, as appropriate. Additionally, the Company offers Personalized Tumorgraft™ development, drug studies and genome sequencing as part of its POS whereby physicians can evaluate the effects of cancer drugs on their patients’ tumorgrafts and understand the genetic make-up of their patient’s tumor enabling them to better select treatment regimens that may be efficacious to the patient

This press release may contain “forward-looking statements” (within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995) that inherently involve risk and uncertainties. Champions Oncology generally uses words such as “believe,” “may,” “could,” “will,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. One should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Company’s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements for many unforeseen factors. See Champions Oncology’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2011 for a discussion of such risks, uncertainties and other factors. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, they relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made, and Champions Oncology’s future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements may not meet these expectations. The Company does not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in Champions Oncology’s expectations, except as required by law.

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  2. Hidalgo M et al. A Pilot Study of Treatment Guided by Personalized Tumorgrafts in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther August 2011 10:1311-1316
  3. Rubio-Viqueira B, Jimeno A, Cusatis G, et al. An in vivo platform for translational drug development in pancreatic cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2006;12:4652-4661.
  4. Champions data on file.