Oslo, Norway, 28 November 2018 – Targovax ASA (OSE: TRVX), a clinical stage biotechnology company developing immune activators to target hard-to-treat solid tumors, announces that members of its senior management will present at the following life sciences and investor conferences:
Date: 29 November 2018
Venue: Nordic-American Life Science Conference, NYC, US
Keynote panel: The Allure and Challenges of Nordic Healthcare Acquisitions and Partnerships
Time: 12:30 PM EST
Presentation:
Time: 3:00 PM EST
Presenter: Torbjørn Furuseth, CFO
Date: 5 December 2018
Venue: 4th Annual Oncolytic Virotherapy Summit, Boston, USA
Presentation:
Time: 12:30 PM EST
Presenter: Erik Digman Wiklund, CBO
Panel Discussion: Comparing and Contrasting Virus Types
Time: 4:30 PM EST
The 4th Oncolytic Virotherapy Summit is the leading international conference in the oncolytic virotherapy field for biotech and pharma drug developers to gain scientific and clinical trial updates. In the above mentioned panel discussion, Erik Digman Wiklund, CBO of Targovax, will, together with William Jia, CSO of Virogin, Robert Coffin, CEO of Replimune and Stephen Russell, CEO of Vyriad discuss wild-type and newer generations viruses expressing immune stimulatory payloads or tumor antigens.
The presentations will be available to download at www.circio.com following these events.
For further information, please contact:
Renate Birkeli, Investor Relations
Phone: +47 922 61 624
Email: renate.birkeli@targovax.com
Media and IR enquires:
Andreas Tinglum – Corporate Communications (Norway)
Phone: +47 9300 1773
Email: andreas.tinglum@corpcom.no
Simon Conway/Stephanie Cuthbert – FTI Consulting (International)
Phone: +44 20 3727 1000
Email: Targovax@fticonsulting.com
About Targovax
Activating the patient’s immune system to fight cancer
Targovax (OSE:TRVX) is a clinical stage immuno-oncology company developing oncolytic viruses to target hard-to-treat solid tumors. Immuno-oncology is currently one of the fastest growing therapeutic fields in medicine.
Targovax’s lead product candidate, ONCOS-102, is a genetically modified oncolytic adenovirus, which has been engineered to selectively infect and replicate in cancer cells. It activates the immune system to generate tumor-specific immune responses. In a phase I monotherapy trial, ONCOS-102 induced both local and systemic innate and adaptive immune activation, with associated clinical benefit. In an ongoing phase I trial, patients who have progressed on anti-PD1 checkpoint inhibitors and treated with ONCOS-102 in combination with Keytruda, demonstrated responses in three of nine patients (33% ORR) including one complete response. ONCOS-102’s lead indication is mesothelioma, where the virus is currently being tested in a randomized phase I/II trial expected to report around new year 2019-20.