BLUE BELL, Pa.,
Feb. 11, 2014
/PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT:
INO) announced today that it has been invited by the New York
Stock Exchange to ring the Opening Bell® tomorrow,
February 12th, to mark the
beginning of an exciting year for the company in which it will
reveal all-important phase II efficacy and immune response data for
its lead cancer immunotherapy; continue to advance its prostate
cancer and hepatitis B therapies in partnership with Roche; and
initiate several new clinical trials for cancer
immunotherapies.
A video of the event can be accessed tomorrow at
NYSE.com and archived in the Video Gallery
section of Inovio's website at
http://www.inovio.com/resources/video-gallery/.
Dr. J. Joseph Kim, Inovio's
President & CEO, said: "We are honored that the NYSE invited
Inovio to ring the Opening Bell, signaling the beginning of a year
of breakthrough growth fueled by phase II data from our lead
program, fully establishing Inovio as the leader of active cancer
immunotherapies, and recognizing the ardent efforts of our
employees."
About Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Inovio is revolutionizing vaccines to prevent and treat
today's cancers and challenging infectious diseases. Its SynCon®
vaccines, in combination with its proprietary electroporation
delivery, are generating best-in-class immune responses, with
therapeutic T-cell responses exceeding other technologies in terms
of magnitude, breadth, and response rate. Human data to date have
shown a favorable safety profile. Inovio's lead vaccine, a
therapeutic against HPV-caused pre-cancers and cancers, is in phase
II. Other phase I and preclinical programs target prostate, breast,
and lung cancers as well as HIV, influenza, malaria and hepatitis.
Partners and collaborators include Roche, the University of Pennsylvania, Merck, NIH, HIV
Vaccines Trial Network, National Cancer Institute, U.S. Military
HIV Research Program, University of Southampton, US Dept. of
Homeland Security, University of
Manitoba and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative. More
information is available at
www.inovio.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking
statements relating to our business, including our plans to develop
electroporation-based drug and gene delivery technologies and DNA
vaccines and our capital resources. 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 and product development programs
(including, but not limited to, the fact that pre-clinical and
clinical results referenced in this release may not be indicative
of results achievable in other trials or for other indications,
that the studies or trials may not be successful or achieve the
results desired, that pre-clinical studies and clinical trials may
not commence or be completed in the time periods anticipated, that
results from one study may not necessarily be reflected or
supported by the results of other similar studies and that results
from an animal study may not be indicative of results achievable in
human studies), 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 vaccines, the adequacy of our capital resources, the
availability or potential availability of alternative therapies or
treatments for the conditions targeted by the company or its
collaborators, including alternatives that may be more efficacious
or cost-effective than any therapy or treatment that the company
and its collaborators hope to develop, evaluation of potential
opportunities, issues involving product liability, issues involving
patents and whether they or licenses to them will provide the
company 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 the company can
finance or devote other significant resources that may be necessary
to prosecute, protect or defend them, the level of corporate
expenditures, assessments of the company's 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, 2012, our Form 10-Q for the quarter
ended September 30, 2013, and other
regulatory filings from time to time. There can be no assurance
that any product in Inovio's pipeline will be successfully
developed or manufactured, that final results of clinical studies
will be supportive of regulatory approvals required to market
licensed products, or that any of the forward-looking information
provided herein will be proven accurate.
CONTACTS:
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Investors:
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Bernie Hertel, Inovio
Pharmaceuticals, 858-410-3101, bhertel@inovio.com
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Media:
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Jeff
Richardson, Inovio
Pharmaceuticals,
267-440-4211, jrichardson@inovio.com
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