FibroGen, Inc. (NASDAQ: FGEN) will participate in the 9th Annual SVB Leerink Global Healthcare Conference on February 25, 2020. Enrique Conterno, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at 3:30 PM Eastern Time
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FibroGen, Inc.(NASDAQ: FGEN) will participate in the 9th Annual SVB Leerink Global Healthcare Conference on February 25, 2020. Enrique Conterno, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at 3:30 PM Eastern Time. A live audio webcast will be available on the “Events & Presentations” section of the FibroGen website at www.fibrogen.com. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days.
About FibroGen
FibroGen, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, with subsidiary offices in Beijing and Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, is a leading biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing a pipeline of first-in-class therapeutics. The company applies its pioneering expertise in hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) biology, and clinical development to advance innovative medicines for the treatment of anemia, fibrotic disease, and cancer. Roxadustat, the company’s most advanced product, is an oral small molecule inhibitor of HIF prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) activity, completing worldwide Phase 3 clinical development for the treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD), is approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in China for CKD patients on dialysis and not on dialysis, and by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan for CKD patients on dialysis. The NDA for roxadustat for treatment of CKD anemia was submitted to the U.S. FDA in December 2019. Roxadustat is in Phase 3 clinical development in the U.S. and Europe and in Phase 2/3 development in China for anemia associated with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and in a Phase 2 U.S. trial for treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia. Pamrevlumab, an anti-CTGF human monoclonal antibody, is in Phase 3 clinical development for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and pancreatic cancer, and is currently in a Phase 2 trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). FibroGen is also developing a biosynthetic cornea in China. For more information, please visit www.fibrogen.com.
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FibroGen, Inc.
Media Inquiries:
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Investors:
Michael Tung, M.D.
Investor Relations
1.415.978.1433
ir@fibrogen.com
Source: FibroGen, Inc
