Capital raise follows recent Fast Track Designation by the FDA for Company’s Oncoprex™ imunogene therapy for NSCLC in combination therapy with AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso®
Genprex Inc (NASDAQ:GNPX) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track Designation for its Oncoprex immunogene therapy to treat lung cancer.
Oncoprex in combination with Tagrisso received fast track designation from the Food and Drug Administration to treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
The FDA has granted a Fast Track Designation to the immune-gene therapy Oncoprex in combination with the EGFR inhibitor osimertinib (Tagrisso) for the treatment of patients with EGFR-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have progressed after treatment with osimertinib alone, according to a press release from Genprex, Inc, developer of the therapeutic.
Genprex today announced it has entered into securities purchase agreements with institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 7,620,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share at an offering price of $1.05 per share, pursuant to a registered direct offering, priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules.
Genprex announced that the FDA has granted Fast Track Designation for Genprex’s Oncoprex™ immunogene therapy in combination with EGFR inhibitor osimertinib for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with EFGR mutations that progressed after treatment with osimertinib alone.
Genprex’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Julien Pham, MD, MPH, will lead the Company’s presentation and, along with Rodney Varner, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, will be available for one-on-one investor meetings.
Genprex is once again leading the way in gene therapy and raising the standard in cancer treatment based upon its unique, proprietary technology platform that includes its non-viral vector nanoparticle delivery system.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine recently published a study in Science Advances that introduces a non-viral delivery system for gene editing. Genprex has already treated more than 50 patients in Phase I and II clinical trials using its proprietary non-viral delivery system.
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