Vivani Medical to Present at the Innovation in Obesity Therapeutics Summit West Coast
05 December 2024 - 12:30AM
Business Wire
Vivani Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: VANI) (the “Company” or “Vivani”),
an innovative biopharmaceutical company developing miniaturized,
ultra long-acting drug implants, announced today that CEO Adam
Mendelsohn, Ph.D., will present and participate in a panel
discussion at the Innovation in Obesity Therapeutics Summit West
Coast, taking place in San Diego, California, from December 10-12,
2024.
Event details are as follows:
Panel Discussion: The Obesity Race on the Manufacturing Floor
– Exploring Supply Challenges with Innovations in Discovery
Panel Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Panel Time: 2:40 pm,
Pacific Time
Dr. Mendelsohn will be joined by Feng Liu, Executive Director at
Regor Therapeutics, and David Bearss, co-founder and Chairman at
Biolexis Therapeutics, in a panel discussion of supply chain
challenges for GLP-1 drugs and the innovative solutions that are
being explored to address these issues.
Presentation: Advancing Chronic Disease Management with Ultra
Long-Acting Miniature Subdermal Implants of GLP-1 Presentation
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Presentation Time: 4:20pm,
Pacific Time
In this session, Dr. Mendelsohn will provide an overview of
Vivani’s emerging portfolio of miniature, drug implant candidates
designed to revolutionize the treatment of chronic diseases by
leveraging the company’s proprietary NanoPortal™ implant
technology. The Company’s lead program, NPM-119, is a six-month
GLP-1 (exenatide) implant in development for chronic weight
management. Clinical data from LIBERATE-1, the first-in-human,
study in obese and overweight individuals, is expected in 2025.
These ultra long-acting implants are designed for once or
twice-yearly dosing and directly address main [major] challenges to
optimal treatment, including poor medication adherence and
potentially poor patient tolerability.
More information about Innovation in Obesity Therapeutics Summit
West Coast can be found at
https://innovation-obesity-summit.com/.
About Vivani Medical, Inc.
Leveraging its proprietary NanoPortal™ platform, Vivani develops
biopharmaceutical implants designed to deliver drug molecules
steadily over extended periods of time with the goal of
guaranteeing adherence, and potentially to improve patient
tolerance to their medication. Vivani’s lead program, NPM-115,
utilizes a miniature, six-month, subdermal, GLP-1 (exenatide)
implant under development for chronic weight management in obese or
overweight individuals. Vivani’s emerging pipeline also includes
the NPM-139 (semaglutide implant) which is also under development
for chronic weight management in obese and overweight individuals.
The semaglutide implant has the added potential benefit of
once-yearly administration. NPM-119 refers to the Company’s type 2
diabetes development program utilizing a six-month, subdermal
exenatide implant. Both the NPM-115 and NPM-119 programs utilize
exenatide-based products with a higher-dose associated with the
NPM-115 program for chronic weight management in obese or
overweight patients. These NanoPortal™ implants are designed to
provide patients with the opportunity to realize the full potential
benefit of their medication by avoiding the challenges associated
with the daily or weekly administration of orals and injectables.
Medication non-adherence occurs when patients do not take their
medication as prescribed. This affects an alarming number of
patients, approximately 50%, including those taking daily pills.
Medication non-adherence, which contributes to more than $500
billion in annual avoidable healthcare costs and 125,000
potentially preventable deaths annually in the U.S. alone, is a
primary and daunting reason obese or overweight patients, and
patients taking type 2 diabetes or other chronic disease treatments
face significant challenges in achieving positive real-world
effectiveness. While the current GLP-1 landscape includes over 50
new molecular entities under clinical stage development, Vivani
remains confident that its highly differentiated portfolio of
miniature long-acting GLP-1 implants have the potential to provide
an attractive therapeutic option for patients, prescribers and
payers.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements”
within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the US
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements can be identified by words such as: “target,” “believe,”
“expect,” “will,” “may,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “would,”
“positioned,” “future,” and other similar expressions that in this
press release, including statements regarding Vivani’s business,
products in development, including the therapeutic potential
thereof, the planned development therefor, the initiation of the
LIBERATE-1 trial and reporting of trial results, Vivani’s emerging
development plans for NPM-115, NPM-139, or Vivani’s plans with
respect to Cortigent and its proposed initial public offering,
technology, strategy, cash position and financial runway.
Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor
assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on
Vivani’s current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because
forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject
to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that
are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of Vivani’s
control. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from
those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you
should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to
differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking
statements include, among others, risks related to the development
and commercialization of Vivani’s products, including NPM-115 and
NPM-119; delays and changes in the development of Vivani’s
products, including as a result of applicable laws, regulations and
guidelines, potential delays in submitting and receiving regulatory
clearance or approval to conduct Vivani’s development activities,
including Vivani’s ability to commence clinical development of
NPM-119; risks related to the initiation, enrollment and conduct of
Vivani’s planned clinical trials and the results therefrom;
Vivani’s history of losses and Vivani’s ability to access
additional capital or otherwise fund Vivani’s business; market
conditions and the ability of Cortigent to complete its initial
public offering. There may be additional risks that the Company
considers immaterial, or which are unknown. A further list and
description of risks and uncertainties can be found in the
Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed on March 26, 2024, as
updated by the Company’s subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Any forward-looking statement made by Vivani in this press release
is based only on information currently available to the Company and
speaks only as of the date on which it is made. The Company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to
time, whether as a result of added information, future developments
or otherwise, except as required by law.
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