On August 28, 2018 RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: RXII) a biotechnology company developing the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics based on its proprietary self-delivering RNAi (sd-rxRNA) therapeutic platform reported that it will be featured as a presenting company at the 20th Annual Rodman & Renshaw Global Investment Conference, sponsored by H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (Press release, RXi Pharmaceuticals, AUG 28, 2018, View Source [SID1234529098]). The conference is being held September 4-6, 2018 at the St. Regis New York Hotel in New York City.
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Dr. Gerrit Dispersyn, Chief Development Officer for the Company, will provide an overview of RXi’s business and ongoing programs for the development of RNAi-based immuno-oncology therapeutics that aim to fill the unmet need of other therapeutic approaches and, its strategy to tackle different immune escape mechanisms to treat cancer.
Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Time: 3:25 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Library, 2nd floor at the St. Regis New York Hotel in New York City
Webcast link: View Source
About this Conference
If you are an institutional investor and would like to attend RXi’s presentation, please click on the following link (www.rodmanevents.com) to register for the conference. Once your registration is confirmed, you will be prompted to log into the conference website to request a one-on-one meeting with RXi.
About Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) (Free SITC Whitepaper)
Immunotherapy of cancer has become increasingly important in clinical practice over the recent decade. By activating the patient’s immune system, immunotherapy treatments have shown remarkable promise in extending the lifespan of previously untreatable cancer patients. Adoptive cell therapy is an emerging immunotherapy approach which uses immune cells, such as T-lymphocytes or NK cells that are isolated from the patient or retrieved from allogeneic immune cell banks, and then expanded and in some cases processed to express tumor-binding receptors.
A new and important step in this ex-vivo processing of the immune cells is in development where self-delivering RNAi compounds (sd-rxRNA) are used to eliminate the expression of immunosuppressive receptors or proteins from the therapeutic immune cells, thereby making them less sensitive to tumor resistance mechanisms and improving their ability to destroy tumor cells. In this way, sd-rxRNA therapeutic compounds can be used to weaponize therapeutic immune cells to attack cancer and ultimately provide patients battling terminal cancers with a powerful new treatment option that goes beyond current treatment modalities.