iBio, Inc. to Present at the Wells Fargo Securities 2012 Healthcare Conference

NEWARK, Del., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced that the Company has again been invited to present at the annual Wells Fargo Securities Healthcare Conference. The 2012 Conference will be held on June 19 and 20 at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston, MA. iBio’s president, Robert Erwin, will present on Tuesday, June 19 at 9:30 a.m. ET.

About iBio, Inc.

iBio develops and offers product applications of its iBioLaunch platform, providing collaborators full support for turn-key implementation of its technology for both proprietary and biosimilar products. The iBioLaunch platform is a proprietary, transformative technology for development and production of biologics using transient gene expression in unmodified green plants. Advantages over other systems include: success with proteins difficult or impossible to produce with other methods; broadly applicable to biologics, including monoclonal antibodies, other therapeutic proteins and vaccines; enables rapid development and validation of modular, scalable, and optionally robotic, multi-product manufacturing facilities; production time measured in weeks instead of months or more. Additional benefits include a practically unlimited surge capacity for remedial action against bioterrorism and pandemic disease; product entry that is unconstrained by traditional process patents, and significantly lower capital and operating costs for comparable production. Further information is available at: www.ibioinc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements included in this news release related to iBio, Inc. may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties such as competitive factors, technological development, market demand, and the Company’s ability to obtain new contracts and accurately estimate net revenues due to variability in size, scope and duration of projects. Further information on potential risk factors that could affect the Company’s financial results can be found in the company’s Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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