VG Life Sciences Inc. has received approval from the Institutional Review Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio to expand the types of cancers being studied in the Company's ongoing physician-initiated Phase 1 clinical trial. The IRB action allows the study to immediately broaden scope to the treatment of all solid tumors, which includes a wide and diverse range of cancer types including breast, colon, lung, liver and pancreas cancer. Effective immediately, principal investigator Dr. Tyler Curiel will begin screening patients with all solid tumors to study the safety of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in combination with sorafenib (marketed as Nexevar(TM) by Bayer AG).

VG Life Sciences holds the exclusive worldwide license to the body of patents underlying the use of MDT compounds in the treatment of cancers. Concurrent with receipt of IRB approval, noted oncologist Dr. Tyler Curiel has announced that he will expand the study of HCQ into patients suffering from relapsed or refractory (drug-resistant) cancers including those of breast, colon, lung, liver and pancreas, and is now screening patients for trial eligibility at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC) of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio. The protocol for the trial will remain otherwise unchanged, including endpoints, dosing and follow-up evaluation.