NEW YORK and HERZLIYA PITUACH, Israel, Nov. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: IMNP) announced that Dr. Daniel Teper, Chairman & CEO, will discuss personalized medicine at a panel taking place on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at 9:45 a.m.
Dr. Teper commented: “Personalized medicine allows for physicians to stratify patients based on biomarkers, helping provide the right drug for the right patient. Immune is developing Bertilimumab for the treatment of auto-immune diseases based on tissue eotaxin-1 levels. Immune is also developing NanomAbs for the targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics based on over-expression of certain tumor cell membrane proteins.”
Leading CEOs from New York, Boston, California, Europe and Asia biotechnology communities will gather at the 2014 NY/NJ CEO Biotech Conference to be held on November 12th and 13th at Apella in New York City. The NY/NJ CEO Biotech Conference is an off-the-record forum for industry CEOs and decision makers in the life sciences.
About Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Immune Pharmaceuticals Inc. applies a personalized approach to treatment, developing novel, highly targeted antibody therapeutics to improve the lives of patients with inflammatory diseases and cancer. The Company’s lead product candidate, bertilimumab, is in clinical development for moderate to severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease as well as bullous pemphigoid, an orphan auto-immune dermatological condition. Immune licensed worldwide rights for systemic indications of bertilimumab from iCo Therapeutics (TSX: ICO; OTCQX: ICOTF) in June 2011, while iCo retained rights to all ophthalmic indications. iCo originally licensed the exclusive world-wide rights to bertilimumab in 2006 from MedImmune, the Global Research and Development Arm of AstraZeneca. Immune’s pipeline also includes NanomAbs®, antibody nanoparticle conjugates, for the targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics, and AmiKet, a Neuropathic Pain drug candidate ready for Phase III. AmiKet has received Orphan Drug Designation for Post Herpetic Neuralgia.
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Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag is engaged as Immune´s Certified Adviser on NASDAQ OMX First North Premier.
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