Ocugen Inc :. to Present at CTIC, HC Wainwright and Noble Capital Investor Conferences
January 11, 2021 at 02:30 pm
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MALVERN - Ocugen, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCGN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing gene therapies to cure blindness diseases and develop a vaccine to fight COVID-19, today announced that it will present at the 2021 CTIC 5th Healthcare Investment Summit being held on January 9-10, the H.C. Wainwright BioConnect Conference being held on January 11-14, and the Noble Capital Markets 17th Annual Small and Microcap Investor Conference being held on January 19-21.
Dr. Shankar Musunuri, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder will present virtually at all three conferences to provide an update on the development of Ocugen's breakthrough modifier gene therapy, its novel biologic product candidate, and COVID-19 vaccine candidate, COVAXIN for the US market. Dr. Musunuri will share Ocugen's recent accomplishments and its plans to initiate four Phase 1/2 clinical trials within 1-2 years.
About Ocugen, Inc.
Ocugen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing gene therapies to cure blindness diseases and develop a vaccine to fight COVID-19. Our breakthrough modifier gene therapy platform has the potential to treat multiple retinal diseases with one drug 'one to many' and our novel biologic product candidate aims to offer better therapy to patients with underserved diseases such as wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, and diabetic retinopathy.
About COVAXIN
COVAXIN, India's COVID-19 vaccine candidate by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV). This inactivated vaccine is developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech's BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3) bio containment facility. COVAXIN is a highly purified and inactivated vaccine, manufactured in a vero cell manufacturing platform with an excellent safety track record of more than 300 million doses supplied. COVAXIN recently received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Indian government. Ocugen and Bharat Biotech recently entered into a binding letter of intent to co-develop COVAXIN for the US Market.
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Ocugen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing gene and cell therapies, biologics, and vaccines that improve health for patients across the globe. Its technology pipeline includes modifier gene therapy platform, regenerative medicine cell therapy platform, and biologic therapies for retinal diseases. The Company is developing its modifier gene therapy platform, inclusive of OCU400, OCU410, and OCU410ST, for the treatment of multiple inherited retinal disease (IRDs), including retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), Stargardt disease and multifactorial diseases such as dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD) and geographic atrophy (GA). It is developing an inhalation-based mucosal vaccine platform based on a novel ChAd vector, which includes OCU500, a COVID-19 vaccine; OCU510, a seasonal quadrivalent flu vaccine; and OCU520, a combination quadrivalent seasonal flu and COVID-19 vaccine.