CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT
Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that it will
partipate in the ROTH Capital Healthcare Event, "Covid-19
Therapeutics in Development," taking place on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. The ROTH
Healthcare and Biotechnology team are hosting the webinar to
discuss key therapies in development to treat COVID
disease.
The Webinar includes three sessions: "Immune Modulators to
Ameliorate COVID Disease 1," "Direct Antivirals and Other
Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus," and "Indirect Antivirals
Against SARS-CoV2 Virus."
To register for the event, please click here.
Wednesday,
October 28th @ 10:30am – 11:50am Eastern
Time
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Session
Title:
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Direct Antivirals and
Other Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus
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Participants:
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Tarek Hassanein,
M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G., A.G.A.F., F.A.A.S.L.D., Professor of
Medicine at University of California San Diego School of
Medicine
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Durect Corporation
(DRRX)
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Aridis
Pharmaceuticals (ARDS)
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Hepion
Pharmaceuticals (HEPA)
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CohBar Inc
(CWBR)
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Beyond Air
(XAIR)
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About DURECT Corporation
DURECT is a biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming
the treatment of acute organ injury and chronic liver diseases by
advancing novel and potentially lifesaving therapies based on its
endogenous epigenetic regulator program. DURECT's lead candidate,
DUR-928 is an endogenous sulfated oxysterol and an epigenetic
regulator. It represents a new class of therapeutics with a unique
mechanism of action. DUR-928 epigenetically modulates the
expression of multiple clusters of master genes that are involved
in many important cell signaling pathways, through which it
stabilizes mitochondria, reduces lipotoxicity, regulates
inflammatory or stress responses, and promotes cell survival.
This drug candidate is in Phase 2 development for the treatment of
alcoholic hepatitis (AH) and the treatment of COVID-19 patients
with acute liver or kidney injury as well as Phase 1 development
for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). DURECT's
proprietary drug delivery technologies are designed to enable new
indications and enhanced attributes for small-molecule and biologic
drugs. One late-stage product candidate in this category is
POSIMIR® (bupivacaine sustained-release solution), an
investigational locally-acting, non-opioid analgesic intended to
provide up to three days of continuous pain relief after surgery.
For more information about DURECT, please visit www.durect.com and
follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DURECTCorp.
DURECT Forward-Looking Statement
The statements in this press release regarding clinical
development plans for DUR-928, including the potential use of
DUR-928 to treat COVID-19 patients with liver or kidney injury, the
potential use of DUR-928 to treat acute organ injuries, such as AH,
and chronic liver diseases, such as NASH, the life saving potential
of DUR-928, and the potential use of POSIMIR to provide pain relief
after surgery are forward-looking statements involving risks and
uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially
from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks that the
clinical trial of DUR-928 in COVID-19 patients is delayed or
stopped because of changes to the standard of care, the
availability of alternative therapies, protocol changes or lack of
available patients, the risk that future clinical trials of DUR-928
are not started when anticipated, take longer to conduct than
anticipated, do not confirm the results from earlier clinical or
pre-clinical trials, or do not demonstrate the safety or efficacy
or the life saving potential of DUR-928 in a statistically
significant manner, the risk that the FDA will not approve POSIMIR
or approve POSIMIR with a limited label, the risk that additional
time and resources may be required for development, testing and
regulatory approval of DUR-928 or the Company's other product
candidates, potential adverse effects arising from the testing or
use of our drug candidates, our potential failure to maintain our
collaborative agreements with third parties and risks related to
our ability to obtain capital to fund operations and expenses.
Further information regarding these and other risks is included in
DURECT's Form 10-Q filed on August 4,
2020 under the heading "Risk Factors."
NOTE: POSIMIR® and SABER® are trademarks
of DURECT Corporation. Other referenced trademarks belong to
their respective owners. DUR-928 and POSIMIR are
investigational drug candidates under development and have not been
approved for commercialization by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration or other health authorities for any indication.
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