Abeona Therapeutics to Present at the Stifel Virtual Cell Therapy Forum
CLEVELAND, July 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abeona Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ABEO) today announced that Abeona’s Chief Executive Officer, Vish Seshadri, Ph.D., M.B.A., and Chief Commercial Officer, Madhav Vasanthavada, Ph.D., M.B.A., will participate in a virtual fireside chat at the Stifel Virtual Cell Therapy Forum on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time.
A live webcast of the fireside chat will be available on the Investors section of the Abeona website under "Events" at https://investors.abeonatherapeutics.com/events. The webcast will be archived for 30 days.
About Abeona Therapeutics
Abeona Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing cell and gene therapies for serious diseases. Prademagene zamikeracel (pz-cel) is Abeona’s investigational autologous, COL7A1 gene-corrected epidermal sheets currently in development for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. The Company’s fully integrated cell and gene therapy cGMP manufacturing facility served as the manufacturing site for pz-cel used in its Phase 3 VIITAL™ trial, and is capable of supporting commercial production of pz-cel upon FDA approval. The Company’s development portfolio also features AAV-based gene therapies for ophthalmic diseases with high unmet medical need. Abeona’s novel, next-generation AAV capsids are being evaluated to improve tropism profiles for a variety of devastating diseases. For more information, visit www.abeonatherapeutics.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Investor and Media Contact: Greg Gin VP, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Abeona Therapeutics ir@abeonatherapeutics.com
Released July 8, 2024