PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.,
March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on
bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and
protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, today announced
that Dr. J. Joseph Kim, President
and CEO, along with other members of INOVIO management, will
present at the following investor conferences in March:
H.C. Wainwright Global Life Sciences Conference
Date:
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Virtual 1x1 meetings only
Oppenheimer 31st Annual Healthcare Conference
Date:
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Time: 10:40 a.m. ET
Presentation Format: Corporate Presentation
Live and archived versions of the virtual presentations will be
available through the INOVIO Investor Relations Events page and may
be accessed by visiting INOVIO's website at
http://ir.inovio.com/investors/events/default.aspx. All
presentation times are subject to change.
About INOVIO's DNA Medicines Platform
INOVIO has 15 DNA medicine clinical programs currently in
development focused on HPV-associated diseases, cancer, and
infectious diseases, including coronaviruses associated with
COVID-19 and MERS, for which programs are being developed with
funding support from the U.S. Department of Defense and the
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). DNA
medicines are composed of optimized DNA plasmids, which are small
circles of double-stranded DNA that are synthesized or reorganized
by a computer sequencing technology and designed to produce a
specific immune response in the body.
INOVIO's DNA medicines deliver optimized plasmids directly into
cells intramuscularly or intradermally using INOVIO's proprietary
hand-held smart device called CELLECTRA®. The
CELLECTRA® device uses a brief electrical pulse to
reversibly open small pores in the cell to allow the plasmids to
enter, overcoming a key limitation of other DNA and other nucleic
acid approaches, such as mRNA. Once inside the cell, the DNA
plasmids enable the cell to produce the targeted antigen. The
antigen is processed naturally in the cell and triggers the desired
T cell and antibody-mediated immune responses. Administration with
the CELLECTRA® device is designed to ensure that
the DNA medicine is efficiently delivered directly into the body's
cells, where it can go to work to drive an immune response.
INOVIO's DNA medicines do not interfere with or change in any way
an individual's own DNA. The advantages of INOVIO's DNA medicine
platform are how fast DNA medicines can be designed and
manufactured; the stability of the products, which do not require
freezing in storage and transport; and the robust immune response,
safety profile, and tolerability that have been observed in
clinical trials.
With more than 3,000 patients receiving INOVIO investigational
DNA medicines in more than 7,000 applications across a range of
clinical trials, INOVIO has a strong track record of rapidly
generating DNA medicine candidates with potential to meet urgent
global health needs.
About INOVIO
INOVIO is a biotechnology company focused on rapidly bringing to
market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people
from infectious diseases, cancer, and diseases associated with HPV.
INOVIO is the first and only company to have clinically
demonstrated that a DNA medicine can be delivered directly into
cells in the body via a proprietary smart device to produce a
robust and tolerable immune response. INOVIO's lead immunotherapy
candidate, VGX-3100, currently in Phase 3 trials for precancerous
cervical dysplasia, cleared high-risk HPV-16 and/or HPV-18 in a
Phase 2b clinical trial. High-risk
HPV is responsible for 70% of cervical cancer, 91% of anal cancer,
and 69% of vulvar cancer. Also in development are programs
targeting HPV-related cancers and a rare HPV-related disease,
recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP); non-HPV-related cancers
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and prostate cancer; as well as
infectious disease DNA vaccine development programs in
coronaviruses associated with COVID-19 diseases and MERS, Lassa
fever, Ebola, and HIV. Partners and collaborators include
Advaccine, ApolloBio Corporation, AstraZeneca, The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations (CEPI), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA)/Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological,
Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND)/Department of Defense
(DoD), HIV Vaccines Trial Network, International Vaccine Institute
(IVI), Kaneka Eurogentec, Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC),
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Ology Bioservices,
the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Plumbline Life
Sciences, Regeneron, Richter-Helm BioLogics, Thermo Fisher
Scientific, University of Pennsylvania,
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and The Wistar Institute.
INOVIO also is a proud recipient of 2020 Women on Boards "W"
designation recognizing companies with more than 20% women on their
board of directors. For more information,
visit www.inovio.com.
CONTACTS:
Media: Jeff Richardson,
267-440-4211, jrichardson@inovio.com
Investors: Ben Matone, 484-362-0076,
ben.matone@inovio.com
This press release contains certain forward-looking
statements relating to our business, including our plans to develop
and commercialize DNA medicines, our expectations regarding our
research and development programs, including the planned initiation
and conduct of preclinical studies and clinical trials and the
availability and timing of data from those studies and trials, and
our ability to successfully manufacture and produce large
quantities of our product candidates if they receive regulatory
approval. Actual events or results may differ from the expectations
set forth herein as a result of a number of factors, including
uncertainties inherent in pre-clinical studies, clinical trials,
product development programs and commercialization activities and
outcomes, our ability to secure sufficient manufacturing capacity
to mass produce our product candidates, the availability of funding
to support continuing research and studies in an effort to prove
safety and efficacy of electroporation technology as a delivery
mechanism or develop viable DNA medicines, our ability to support
our pipeline of DNA medicine products, the ability of our
collaborators to attain development and commercial milestones for
products we license and product sales that will enable us to
receive future payments and royalties, the adequacy of our capital
resources, the availability or potential availability of
alternative therapies or treatments for the conditions targeted by
us or collaborators, including alternatives that may be more
efficacious or cost effective than any therapy or treatment that we
and our collaborators hope to develop, issues involving product
liability, issues involving patents and whether they or licenses to
them will provide us with meaningful protection from others using
the covered technologies, whether such proprietary rights are
enforceable or defensible or infringe or allegedly infringe on
rights of others or can withstand claims of invalidity and whether
we can finance or devote other significant resources that may be
necessary to prosecute, protect or defend them, the level of
corporate expenditures, assessments of our technology by potential
corporate or other partners or collaborators, capital market
conditions, the impact of government healthcare proposals and other
factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2020 and other
filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. There can be no assurance that any product candidate in
our pipeline will be successfully developed, manufactured or
commercialized, that final results of clinical trials will be
supportive of regulatory approvals required to market products, or
that any of the forward-looking information provided herein will be
proven accurate. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the
date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update or
revise these statements, except as may be required by law.
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