CEO Paul Romness available to meet with institutional investors
NEW YORK, January 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OS Therapies, Inc. (NYSE-A: OSTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing immunotherapies and targeted drug conjugates for cancer treatment, today announced that its Chair & CEO Paul Romness has accepted an invitation to attend the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, CA taking place on January 13-16, 2025 in San Francisco, CA. This premier conference is the largest and most informative health care investment symposium in the industry which connects global industry leaders, emerging fast-growth companies, innovative technology creators and members of the investment community.
"After having successfully completed our IPO in 2024 and finished the treatment phase of our potentially pivotal Phase 2b clinical trial of lead therapeutic immunotherapy candidate OST-HER2 in the treatment of the rare pediatric disease recurrent, resected metastatic Osteosarcoma, we are excited to begin to engage with the institutional investor community and raise the profile of OS Therapies in the capital markets," said Paul Romness, MHP, Chair and CEO of OS Therapies. "We intend to announce an update of the data from this trial throughout the week of the conference and expect that this will provide a good opportunity for the markets to get a better understanding of our Company’s potential for an approval in 2025 that would not only change the lives of families afflicted by this devastating childhood cancer, but would also make the Company eligible to be granted a Priority Review Voucher (PRV), currently valued at approximately $150 million, that would further capitalize the Company to allow it expand the clinical development of OST-HER2 into other HER2 positive cancers such as Breast cancer and/or Colorectal cancer."
The US FDA granted OST-HER2 Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Osteosarcoma in 2021. The US FDA rare pediatric disease PRV program aims to incentivize drug development for rare pediatric diseases. Under this voucher program, a sponsor who receives an approval for a drug or biological product for a rare pediatric disease qualifies for a voucher that can be redeemed to receive priority review for a different product. The sponsor may also transfer or sell the voucher to another sponsor. OS Therapies intends to sell the PRV it would earn upon receiving approval of OST-HER2 for recurrent, resected metastatic Osteosarcoma. The most recent publicly disclosed sale price of a PRV was on November 27, 2024 when PTC Therapeutics announced selling its PRV to Kebilidi for $150M. With emerging scarcity in the PRV market, the Company expects the value of PRVs to increase going forward. The maximum sale price of a PRV was in 2015 when AbbVie bought a PRV from United Therapeutics for $350 million.
OS Therapies is a clinical stage oncology company focused on the identification, development, and commercialization of treatments for Osteosarcoma (OS) and other solid tumors. OST-HER2, the Company's lead asset, is an immunotherapy leveraging the immune-stimulatory effects of Listeria bacteria to initiate a strong immune response targeting the HER2 protein. The Company has completed enrollment for a 41-patient Phase 2b clinical trial of OST-HER2 in resected, recurrent osteosarcoma, OST-HER2 has completed a Phase 1 clinical study primarily in breast cancer patients, in addition to showing preclinical efficacy data in various models of breast cancer. OST-HER2 has been conditionally approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the treatment of canines with osteosarcoma. In addition, OS Therapies is advancing its next-generation Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) platform, known as tunable ADC (tADC), which features tunable, tailored antibody-linker-payload candidates. This platform leverages the Company's proprietary silicone linker technology, enabling the delivery of multiple payloads per linker. For more information, please visit www.ostherapies.com.
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