Rigel to Participate in Citi's 15th Annual BioPharma Virtual Conference
Rigel Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: RIGL) announced that CEO Raul Rodriguez will participate in a panel discussion on COVID-19 during Citi's 15th Annual BioPharma Virtual Conference on September 9, 2020. The panel, titled State of Play for COVID-19 Therapeutics, will take place at 9:50 a.m. Eastern Time. Interested parties can access the live or archived webcast through the Investor Relations section of Rigel's website. Rigel focuses on developing novel drugs for immune disorders and has a product, TAVALISSE, approved for chronic immune thrombocytopenia.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigel Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: RIGL) today announced that Raul Rodriguez, the company's president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion on COVID-19 during Citi's 15th Annual BioPharma Virtual Conference taking place September 9-10, 2020.
Citi Panel Details:
Panel Topic: State of Play for COVID-19 Therapeutics
Date: Wednesday, September 9
Time: 9:50 a.m. Eastern Time
To access the event live or the archived webcast, go to the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.rigel.com. Please connect to Rigel's website several minutes prior to the start of the live webcast to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary.
About Rigel (www.rigel.com)
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a biotechnology company dedicated to discovering, developing and providing novel small molecule drugs that significantly improve the lives of patients with immune and hematologic disorders, cancer and rare diseases. Rigel's pioneering research focuses on signaling pathways that are critical to disease mechanisms. The company's first FDA approved product is TAVALISSE® (fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate) tablets, the only oral spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment. The product has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia in adult patients who are refractory to other treatments and is marketed in Europe under the name TAVLESSE® (fostamatinib). Fostamatinib is currently being studied in an investigator-sponsored trial conducted by Imperial College London for the treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia1.
Rigel's clinical programs include a Phase 3 study of fostamatinib in warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA); a completed Phase 1 study of R8351, a proprietary molecule from its interleukin receptor associated kinase (IRAK) inhibitor program; and an ongoing Phase 1 study of R5521, a proprietary molecule from its receptor-interacting protein kinase (RIP) inhibitor program. In addition, Rigel has product candidates in clinical development with partners AstraZeneca, BerGenBio ASA, and Daiichi Sankyo.
Please see www.TAVALISSE.com for the full Prescribing Information.
1The product for this use or indication is investigational and has not been proven safe or effective by any regulatory authority.
IR Contact: David Burke
Phone: 650.624.1232
Email: dburke@rigel.com
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