Re: Farmas USA
Threshold Pharmaceuticals to Host Analyst and Investor Day on April 24 in New York City
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/16/15 -- Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD), today announced that it will host an Analyst and Investor Day on Friday, April 24, 2015, from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Eastern Time in New York City. Members of Threshold's senior management team will be joined by other research and clinical leaders in the field of tumor hypoxia, hypoxia-activated prodrugs, and next-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy to discuss its clinical development programs for evofosfamide (formerly TH-302) and TH-4000.
Guest speakers scheduled to give presentations at this event include Stephen V. Liu, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Adam Patterson, Ph.D., Head of Translational Therapeutics, University of Auckland, New Zealand; and Jeff Smaill, Ph.D., Senior Medicinal Chemist, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Drs. Patterson and Smaill are co-inventors of TH-4000, the Company's proprietary hypoxia-activated, irreversible EGFR-TKI. Dr. Liu will serve as Principal Investigator for the Company's planned Phase 2 clinical trial of TH-4000 in patients with mutant EGFR-positive, T790M-negative non-small cell lung cancer and co-investigator for the Company's planned Phase 2 clinical trial of TH-4000 in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
The event is open to investors and analysts. Threshold invites the public and the media to listen to the presentations via the live webcast, which will be available under Webcasts in the Investors section of www.thresholdpharm.com or can be accessed using the following link: http://lifesci.rampard.com/20150424/index.jsp. The presentations are scheduled to begin at approximately 12:00 p.m. EDT. A replay of the presentations will be archived on the site for at least 30 days.
Event Details
Date: April 24, 2015
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Eastern Time