PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (NYSE Amex:HEB) (the "Company"), today announced that the Company will participate in the Rodman & Renshaw 13th Annual Global Healthcare Conference, to be held on September 11 - 13, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY.
Hemispherx's presentation is scheduled for Monday, September 12, 2011 at 4:05 PM EDT in the Metropolitan East room.
The presentation will be webcast live. Listeners can access this broadcast through Hemispherx`s Website at http://www.hemispherx.net. The webcast will be available for 30 days following the presentation.
The Company's management team will also be participating in one-on-one meetings with conference attendees and will discuss the Company's products and global investigational programs for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases including pandemic influenza, CFS and cancer: Alferon N Injection®, Alferon LDO® and Ampligen®. To schedule a one-one-one meeting with the Company at this event, please contact a Rodman & Renshaw representative directly or contact Dianne Will at (518) 398-6222.
For more information regarding this conference, please visit www.rodmanandrenshaw.com.
About Hemispherx Biopharma
Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. is an advanced specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the manufacture and clinical development of new drug entities for treatment of seriously debilitating disorders. Hemispherx's flagship products include Alferon N Injection® (FDA approved for a category of sexually transmitted diseases) and the experimental therapeutics Ampligen® and Alferon® LDO. Ampligen® is an experimental RNA nucleic acid being developed for globally important debilitating diseases and disorders of the immune system. Hemispherx's platform technology includes components for potential treatment of various severely debilitating and life threatening diseases. Hemispherx has patents comprising its core intellectual property estate and a fully commercialized product (Alferon N Injection®). The Company wholly owns and exclusively operates a GMP certified manufacturing facility in the United States for commercial products. For more information please visit www.hemispherx.net.
Information contained in this news release, other than historical information, should be considered forward-looking and is subject to various risk factors and uncertainties. For instance, the strategies and operations of Hemispherx involve risk of competition, changing market conditions, change in laws and regulations affecting these industries and numerous other factors discussed in this release and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any specifically referenced investigational drugs and associated technologies of the Company (including Ampligen® and Alferon® LDO) are experimental in nature and as such are not designated safe and effective by a regulatory authority for general use and are legally available only through clinical trials with the referenced disorders. The forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims, however, any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. The planning, completion, results or submission of clinical trials do not imply that any study product will ever be approved commercially for the studied or other treatment indications. The scale-up of Alferon N manufacturing could be delayed by various critical steps including those involved in construction, GMP compliance, formulation, packaging and labeling, as well as potential issues related to 3rd party vendors including without limitation various "fill and finish" procedures.