WEST HAVEN, Conn. - (Business Wire) NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), announced today that the Company’s CEO, Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH, has been invited to participate in a panel discussion at the Influenza Congress USA 2009, in Washington DC on November 19th (www.terrapinn.com/usaflu). The discussion will center on the “Evolving Role of Anti-Virals” in influenza treatment. Dr. Seymour will review the Company’s recent in vivo studies against influenza. The success of these studies has led the Company to consolidate its anti-influenza drug programs into a single, pan-influenza drug, “FluCide™”. This single drug is expected to be highly effective against all forms of influenza A, including the recent “swine flu” 2009/CA/H1N1 strain, seasonal flu strains, as well as H5N1 bird flu strains feared to be capable of creating a devastating pandemic, and other highly pathogenic strains on the horizon.
A “pan-influenza” drug is widely sought in order to enable treating infections from novel influenza viruses. It is well known that pandemics can be caused by novel strains of influenza. Fortunately the current “swine flu” H1N1/2009 pandemic is now believed to cause fatality rates comparable to seasonal influenzas. However, influenza viruses are known to change rapidly. New influenza viruses are often generated by mixing of genetic material from existing influenza viruses, known as “reassortments”. Such changes can lead to a novel virus that is capable of causing a wide-spread pandemic accompanied by a high fatality rate. In addition, mutations are known to have led to influenza strains resistant to existing anti-influenza drugs. The Company believes that FluCide is designed to minimize the possibility of resistant mutations.
All of the Company’s anti-influenza studies to date have been conducted by independent external investigators.
Dr. Seymour will join other industry panelists in the “Evolving Role of Anti-Virals” session to discuss drug resistance, drug efficacy and clinical development of anti-viral treatments for influenza. The panelists and participants include pharmaceutical and biotech decision makers and executives as well as government and regulatory agency representatives from a number of countries.
This conference is designed to bring together key stakeholders from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, as well as governmental science and regulatory segments to discuss appropriate responses to the evolving influenza pandemic, according to the organizers.
About NanoViricides:
NanoViricides, Inc. (www.nanoviricides.com) is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide™ class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, seasonal Influenza, HIV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye including EKC and herpes keratitis, Hepatitis C, Rabies, Dengue fever, and Ebola virus, among others.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors. Certain statements in this release, and other written or oral statements made by NanoViricides, Inc. are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations include, but are not limited to, those factors that are disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in documents filed by the company from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities. Although it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors, they may include the following: demonstration and proof of principle in pre-clinical trials that a nanoviricide is safe and effective; successful development of our product candidates; our ability to seek and obtain regulatory approvals, including with respect to the indications we are seeking; the successful commercialization of our product candidates; and market acceptance of our products.
NanoViricides, Inc.
Amanda Schuon, 310-550-7200
info@nanoviricides.com
