ZIOPHARM Oncology to Present Updated Clinical Results of Gene Therapy Candidate Ad-RTS-hIL-12 + Veledimex in Recurrent Glioblastoma at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting

On April 20, 2017 ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZIOP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on new immunotherapies, reported that it will present updated results from its Phase 1, multicenter, dose-escalation study of Ad-RTS-hIL-12 + orally administered veledimex in patients with recurrent or progressive glioblastoma at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (Free ASCO Whitepaper) Annual Meeting to be held June 2-6 in Chicago (Press release, Ziopharm, APR 20, 2017, View Source [SID1234518653]). Ad-RTS-hIL-12 + veledimex is a novel, viral gene therapy candidate for the controlled expression of interleukin-12 (IL-12), a pro-inflammatory cytokine critical for stimulating anti-cancer immune responses.

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Details for the poster presentation at ASCO (Free ASCO Whitepaper) 2017:

Title: Expanded phase I study of intratumoral Ad-RTS-hIL-12 plus oral veledimex: Tolerability and survival in recurrent glioblastoma
Abstract Number: 2044
Session: Central Nervous System Tumors
Date and Time: Monday, June 5, 2017, 1:15 — 4:45 p.m. CT