CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT
Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that it will participate
in the HC Wainwright 22nd Annual Global Investment Conference,
Cantor Fitzgerald Virtual Global Healthcare Conference and
Oppenheimer Fall Healthcare Life Sciences & MedTech Summit.
HC Wainwright 22nd Annual Global Investment Conference
Date Monday,
September 14
Time: 2:30-2:50
PM EDT (Fireside Chat with Ed
Arce)
Webcast:
https://wsw.com/webcast/hcw7/drrx/1628192
Cantor Fitzgerald Virtual Global Healthcare Conference
Date
Tuesday, September 15
Time 10-10:30am
EDT (Fireside Chat with Ellie
Merle)
Webcast:
https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2495/37207
Oppenheimer Fall Healthcare Life Sciences & MedTech
Summit
Date:
Tuesday, September 22
Time: 11:40am-12:20pm
EDT (Fireside chat with Francois
Brisebois)
Webcast:
https://wsw.com/webcast/oppenheimer5/drrx/2751264
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 clinical development for the potential
treatment of alcoholic hepatitis (AH), COVID-19 patients with acute
liver or kidney injury, and 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 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, 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,
required 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 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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