Anika to Showcase Commercial and Pipeline Portfolio at 2019 AAOS Annual Meeting

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anika Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIK), a global, integrated orthopedics and regenerative medicines company specializing in therapeutics based on its proprietary hyaluronic acid (“HA”) technology, today announced plans to showcase its innovative commercial and pipeline portfolio at the upcoming American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting, March 12-16 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anika will be exhibiting its injectable, HA-based, surgical bone repair therapy in addition to its viscosupplement (CINGAL) and cartilage repair (HYALOFAST) solutions.

“We’re excited to preview our bone repair therapy at the 2019 AAOS Annual Meeting, the largest gathering of orthopedic surgery professionals from around the world,” said Joseph Darling, President and CEO, Anika Therapeutics. “Our bone repair therapy, which we plan to launch in the U.S. using our hybrid commercial model in the second half of 2019, represents a major advance in the surgical treatment of bone defects and marks an important milestone in the progress of our regenerative medicine pipeline as it will be our first internally developed surgical therapy to launch in the U.S. We look forward to educating the orthopedic surgical community at AAOS on the application and clinical advantages of this innovative new treatment, as well as our broader orthopedic medicine portfolio.”

Below are highlights of Anika’s planned activities:

• AAOS Annual Meeting – Booth 2570 – March 13 – 15, 2019

Darling added, “Our participation in the 2019 AAOS Annual Meeting represents an important opportunity for Anika to continue building relationships with and gaining clinical insights from U.S. orthopedic medicine thought-leaders who will be critical to the success of our hybrid commercialization model and adoption of our newly introduced treatments.”

About Anika Therapeutics, Inc.

Anika Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIK) is a global, integrated orthopedic and regenerative medicines company based in Bedford, Massachusetts. Anika is committed to improving the lives of patients with degenerative orthopedic diseases and traumatic conditions with clinically meaningful therapies along the continuum of care, from palliative pain management to regenerative tissue repair. The Company has over two decades of global expertise developing, manufacturing, and commercializing more than 20 products based on its proprietary hyaluronic acid (HA) technology. Anika’s orthopedic medicine portfolio includes ORTHOVISC^®, MONOVISC^®, and CINGAL^®, which alleviate pain and restore joint function by replenishing depleted HA, and HYALOFAST, a solid HA-based scaffold to aid cartilage repair and regeneration. For more information about Anika, please visit www.anikatherapeutics.com.

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