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December 11 2020 - 6:01AM
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Ocugen Inc. Announces Plan to Postpone
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
MALVERN, PA, December 10,
2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)- Ocugen, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering,
developing, and commercializing transformative therapies to cure blindness diseases, today announced that it will postpone its
2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to December 23, 2020 to provide its stockholders additional time to vote on the proposals
submitted for stockholder approval at the meeting.
The record date for determining stockholders eligible to vote
at the annual meeting will remain the close of business on October 28, 2020. Stockholders who have already submitted a proxy
do not need to vote again for the reconvened annual meeting scheduled for Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 11 a.m. Eastern
time, as the proxies submitted will remain valid.
Ocugen stockholders as
of close of business on October 28, 2020 who have not voted are encouraged to vote prior to the Annual Meeting online at
www.proxyvote.com or by telephone at 1-800-690-6903. Stockholders that need assistance voting or have
questions, may contact Ocugen’s proxy solicitation firm, Okapi Partners, at info@okapipartners.com or (855) 208-8902.
Stockholders who have already submitted proxies and want
to change their proxy can update their vote at any time. Your vote will be recorded at the annual meeting in accordance with your
most recently submitted proxy.
A copy of the Definitive Proxy
Statement is available to stockholders on the Company’s website and at the website maintained by the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) at https://www.sec.gov.
Voting on the proposals will be open through the conclusion
of Ocugen's 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on December 23, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. If
you hold your shares of our common stock with a broker, bank or other holder of record as nominee or agent, you may be subject
to an earlier voting deadline and you should carefully review any materials received from the nominee or agent regarding how to
vote your shares.
Ocugen stockholders as of October 28,
2020, the record date for the Annual Meeting, are invited to attend the virtual Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/OCGN2020.
About Ocugen, Inc.
Ocugen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical
company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing transformative therapies to cure blindness diseases. Our breakthrough
modifier gene therapy platform has the potential to treat multiple retinal diseases with one drug – “one to many”
and our novel biologic product candidate aims to offer better therapy to patients with underserved diseases such as wet age-related
macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, and diabetic retinopathy. For more information, please visit www.ocugen.com.
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We may, in
some cases, use terms such as “predicts,” “believes,” “potential,” “proposed,”
“continue,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,”
“may,” “could,” “might,” “will,” “should” or other words that convey
uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to numerous
important factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from our current expectations.
These and other risks and uncertainties are more fully described in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”), including the risk factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the quarterly
and annual reports that we file with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as
of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained
in this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.
Corporate Contact:
Ocugen, Inc.
Sanjay Subramanian
Chief Financial Officer
IR@Ocugen.com
Media Contact:
LaVoieHealthScience
Lisa DeScenza
ldescenza@lavoiehealthscience.com
+1 978-395-5970
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