Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in DNA vaccine
design, development and delivery, announced today that Dr. J. Joseph
Kim, President and CEO, will present at the 12th Annual BIO
CEO & Investor Conference on Monday, February 8th, at
11:30 a.m. ET at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York, New York.
A live and archived webcast will be accessible on Inovio’s website at www.inovio.com.
About Inovio Biomedical Corporation
Inovio Biomedical is focused on the design, development, and delivery of
a new generation of vaccines, called DNA vaccines, to prevent and treat
cancers and infectious diseases. The company’s SynCon™ technology
enables the design of “universal” vaccines capable of protecting against
multiple – including newly emergent, unknown – strains of pathogens such
as influenza. Inovio’s proprietary electroporation-based DNA vaccine
delivery technology has been shown by initial human data to safely and
significantly increase gene expression and immune responses. Inovio’s
clinical programs include HPV/cervical cancer (therapeutic) and HIV
vaccines. An IND has been filed for an avian influenza vaccine. Inovio
is developing its universal and avian influenza vaccines in
collaboration with scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, the
National Microbiology Laboratory of the Public Health Agency of Canada,
and the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center. Other partners and collaborators
include Merck, Tripep, University of Southampton, National Cancer
Institute, and HIV Vaccines Trial Network. More information is available
at www.inovio.com.
This press release contains, in addition to historical information,
forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management’s
current estimates and expectations and are subject to a number of
uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements. Inovio is providing this information as of the date of this
press release, and expressly disclaims any duty to update information
contained in this press release.
Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without
limitation, express and implied statements relating to Inovio’s
business, plans to develop electroporation-based drug and gene delivery
technologies and DNA vaccines and pre-clinical and clinical studies.
Actual events or results may differ from the expectations set forth
herein as a result of a number of risks, uncertainties and other
factors, including but not limited to: Inovio has a history of losses;
all of Inovio’s potential human products are in research and development
phases; no revenues have been generated from the sale of any such
products, nor are any such revenues expected for at least the next
several years; Inovio’s product candidates will require significant
additional research and development efforts, including extensive
preclinical and clinical testing; uncertainties inherent in clinical
trials and product development programs, including but not limited to
the fact that pre-clinical and clinical results may not be indicative of
results achievable in other trials or for other indications, that
results from one study may not necessarily be reflected or supported by
the results of other similar studies, that results from an animal study
may not be indicative of results achievable in human studies, that
clinical testing is expensive and can take many years to complete, that
the outcome of any clinical trial is uncertain and failure can occur at
any time during the clinical trial process, and that Inovio’s
electroporation technology and DNA vaccines may fail to show the desired
safety and efficacy traits in clinical trials; all product candidates
that Inovio advances to clinical testing will require regulatory
approval prior to commercial use, and will require significant costs for
commercialization; the availability of funding; the ability to
manufacture vaccine candidates; the availability or potential
availability of alternative therapies or treatments for the conditions
targeted by Inovio or its collaborators, including alternatives that may
be more efficacious or cost-effective than any therapy or treatment that
Inovio and its collaborators hope to develop; whether Inovio’s
proprietary rights are enforceable or defensible or infringe or
allegedly infringe on rights of others or can withstand claims of
invalidity; and the impact of government healthcare proposals. Readers
are also referred to Inovio’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2008 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended September 30, 2009 filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission which identify important risk factors that could cause actual
results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.