CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--bluebird bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLUE) today announced that members of the management team will present at the following upcoming investor conferences:
- Deutsche Bank’s 43rd Annual Health Care Conference, Wednesday, May 9, at 10:00 a.m. ET at the Intercontinental Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2018 Healthcare Conference, Tuesday, May 15, at 2:20 p.m. PT at the Encore at Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
To access the live webcasts of bluebird bio’s presentations, please visit the “Events & Presentations” page within the Investors and Media section of the bluebird bio website at http://investor.bluebirdbio.com. Replays of the webcasts will be available on the bluebird bio website for 90 days following the conferences.
About bluebird bio, Inc.
With its lentiviral-based gene
therapies, T cell immunotherapy expertise and gene editing capabilities,
bluebird bio has built an integrated product platform with broad
potential application to severe genetic diseases and cancer. bluebird
bio's gene therapy clinical programs include its Lenti-D™ product
candidate for the treatment of cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, and its
LentiGlobin® product candidate for the treatment of
transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia, also known as β-thalassemia major,
and severe sickle cell disease. bluebird bio's oncology pipeline is
built upon the company's leadership in lentiviral gene delivery and T
cell engineering, with a focus on developing novel T cell-based
immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T) and T cell
receptor (TCR) therapies. bluebird bio's lead oncology programs, bb2121
and bb21217, are anti-BCMA CAR T programs partnered with Celgene.
bluebird bio also has discovery research programs utilizing
megaTAL/homing endonuclease gene editing technologies with the potential
for use across the company's pipeline.
bluebird bio has operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington, Durham, North Carolina and Zug, Switzerland.
LentiGlobin and Lenti-D are trademarks of bluebird bio, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding
the Company’s product candidates and research programs. Any
forward-looking statements are based on management’s current
expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and
adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking
statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to, risks that the preliminary results from our clinical trials will not
continue or be repeated in our ongoing clinical trials, the risk of
cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical studies
and/or our development of our product candidates, the risk of a delay in
the enrollment of patients in our clinical studies, risks that the
current or planned clinical trials of the LentiGlobin drug product will
be insufficient to support regulatory submissions or marketing approval
in the United States and European Union, the risk that our
collaborations, including the collaboration with Celgene, will not
continue or will not be successful, and the risk that any one or more of
our product candidates will not be successfully developed, approved or
commercialized. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and
other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to
differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the
section entitled “Risk Factors” in our annual report on Form 10-K, as
well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other
important factors in our subsequent filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the
date of the release, and bluebird bio undertakes no duty to update this
information unless required by law.