Dr.Raza to speak at Geron analyst and investors meeting on 19th December 2017

Post by **Fishermangents** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:30 pm

MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced that the company’s analyst and investor meeting to discuss imetelstat clinical data will take place in New York, N.Y., on Tuesday, December 19, 2017. The presentation will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Dr. Azra Raza, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director of the Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Center at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, will present data from Part 1 of IMerge, the ongoing Phase 2/3 clinical trial of the telomerase inhibitor imetelstat in patients with lower risk MDS being conducted by Janssen Research & Development, LLC. These data have been accepted as a poster presentation at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available through the Investors section of Geron’s website (http://www.geron.com) under Events. Following the live presentation, the webcast will be archived and available for replay for a period of 30 days.

To attend the meeting in person, please send an email to Gitanjali Jain Ogawa at The Trout Group (gogawa@troutgroup.com) for further information.