CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing allogeneic cell therapies for unmet medical needs, today announced that Brian M. Culley, Lineage’s Chief Executive Officer, will present at the BTIG Virtual Ophthalmology Day, on November 29, 2022 at 12:00pm Eastern Time, in a fireside chat hosted by Yun Zhong, Ph.D., Director, Biotech Equity Research at BTIG. Mr. Culley will also be presenting at Cantor Fitzgerald’s Medical & Aesthetic Dermatology, Ophthalmology & MedTech Conference on December 8, 2022 at 1:45pm Eastern as part of the “Ophthalmology Panel, Vision For The Future: Dry AMD, Other Greenfield Opportunities, and Late-Stage Stories To Shake Things Up”. The panel will be hosted by Jennifer Kim, Vice President, Equity Research at Cantor Fitzgerald, and the conference is taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, December 7-8, 2022.
“I look forward to the opportunity to discuss the evolving landscape in dry AMD, a disease for which there are currently no FDA-approved therapies and which has attracted significant investor attention as of late,” stated Brian M. Culley, Lineage CEO. “Atrophic AMD is a progressive disease that if left untreated can ultimately rob a person of their vision. It is increasingly positive for patients that new potential therapies for dry AMD are attracting mainstream interest, and I am excited at how a cell transplant approach can be more prominently featured in such conversations.”
BTIG’s Virtual Ophthalmology Day 2022 is exploring emerging innovation in ophthalmology and is being hosted by BTIG, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research, and related brokerage services. BTIG’s Corporate Access program hosts client events across the consumer, digital assets, energy and infrastructure, financials, healthcare, real estate and technology sectors. To join the conference, please email info@btig.com.
The Cantor Medical & Aesthetic Dermatology, Ophthalmology & MedTech conference will feature one-on-ones with leading companies in the Medical & Aesthetic Dermatology, Ophthalmology & MedTech industries, as well as key opinion leaders in the dermatology and ophthalmology space. To join the conference and for more information, please contact your Cantor representative.
About Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Lineage Cell Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell therapies for unmet medical needs. Lineage’s programs are based on its robust proprietary cell-based therapy platform and associated in-house development and manufacturing capabilities. With this platform Lineage develops and manufactures specialized, terminally differentiated human cells from its pluripotent and progenitor cell starting materials. These differentiated cells are developed to either replace or support cells that are dysfunctional or absent due to degenerative disease or traumatic injury or administered as a means of helping the body mount an effective immune response to cancer. Lineage’s clinical and preclinical programs are in markets with billion dollar opportunities and include five allogeneic (“off-the-shelf”) product candidates: (i) OpRegen, a retinal pigment epithelial cell therapy in Phase 2a development for the treatment of geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration, is being developed under a worldwide collaboration with Roche and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group; (ii) OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell therapy in Phase 1/2a development for the treatment of acute spinal cord injuries; (iii) VAC2, a dendritic cell therapy produced from Lineage’s VAC technology platform for immuno-oncology and infectious disease, currently in Phase 1 clinical development for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer; (iv) ANP1, an auditory neuronal progenitor cell therapy for the potential treatment of auditory neuropathy; and (v) PNC1, a photoreceptor neural cell therapy for the potential treatment of vision loss due to photoreceptor dysfunction or damage. For more information, please visit www.lineagecell.com or follow the company on Twitter @LineageCell.
Forward-Looking Statements
Lineage cautions you that all statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this press release, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements, in some cases, can be identified by terms such as “believe,” “aim,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “design,” “intend,” “expect,” “could,” “can,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “seek,” “should,” “would,” “contemplate,” “project,” “target,” “tend to,” or the negative version of these words and similar expressions. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to: investor attention in the dry AMD landscape or mainstream interest in potential dry AMD therapies, and the impacts these may have on patients with, or potential therapies for, dry AMD and the role that cell transplant therapies may have in the treatment of dry AMD moving forward; and the potential benefits of treatment with OpRegen. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Lineage’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this press release, including, but not limited to, the following risks: that potential treatments for dry AMD, including OpRegen, may not prove to be successful in clinical trials be and those risks and uncertainties inherent in Lineage’s business and other risks discussed in Lineage’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Lineage’s forward-looking statements are based upon its current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included under the heading “Risk Factors” in Lineage’s periodic reports with the SEC, including Lineage’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC and its other reports, which are available from the SEC’s website. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. Lineage undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.
