Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Collaborators Present Data at the American Association for Cancer Research Meeting on Tekmira’s Lead Oncology Product, TKM-PLK1, and an Oncology Product Candidate Targeting Kinase WEE1

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Nasdaq:TKMR) (TSX:TKM), a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that it will present additional data on its lead oncology product candidate, TKM-PLK1, at the AACR Annual Meeting 2011 taking place April 2-6, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. In addition, Tekmira’s collaboration partner, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will present a poster that includes anti-tumor activity data from silencing a promising cell cycle kinase target enabled by Tekmira’s lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology.