ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP) Files An 8-K Other Events

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ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP) Files An 8-K Other Events

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP) Files An 8-K Other Events
Item 8.01 Other Events.

On October 1, 2019, Ziopharm Oncology, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared an investigational new drug application submitted by MD Anderson Cancer Center for a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate CD19-specific CAR-T therapies for patients with relapsed CD19+ leukemias and lymphomas. The clinical trial will evaluate CAR-T therapies manufactured and infused in two days or less from gene transfer using the Company’s Sleeping Beauty platform. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains “forward-looking statements,” including, but not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s development plans for CD19-specific CAR-T therapies for patients with relapsed CD19+ leukemias and lymphomas. These statements relate to future events and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements set forth in this Current Report speak only as of the date of this Current Report. The Company does not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof other than as required by law. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.

99.1    Press Release dated October 1, 2019.


ZIOPHARM ONCOLOGY INC Exhibit
EX-99.1 2 d809500dex991.htm EX-99.1 EX-99.1 Exhibit 99.1   Ziopharm Oncology Announces FDA Clearance of IND for Rapid Personalized Manufacture of CD19-specific CAR-T – Phase 1 clinical trial of CAR-T produced and infused in two days or less from gene transfer using Ziopharm’s Sleeping Beauty platform – – Rapid personalized manufacture of CD19-specific CAR-T for investigation in unaddressed patient population with relapsed leukemias and lymphoma after bone marrow transplantation – Boston,…
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About ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP)

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is seeking to acquire, develop and commercialize, on its own or with partners, a portfolio of cancer therapies through synthetic immuno-oncology. Its clinical-stage product candidate, Ad-RTS-IL-12, is used with the oral activator veledimex. The Company’s Ad-RTS-IL-12 + veledimex has been evaluated in two Phase II studies, the first for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, and the second for the treatment of unresectable recurrent or metastatic breast cancer. It has initiated the Phase I study for malignant glioma. The Company has completed the Phase II monotherapy studies in melanoma and breast cancer using Ad-RTS-IL-12 + veledimex. It has initiated a Phase Ib/II study of Ad-RTS-hIL-12 + veledimex following chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with locally metastatic breast cancer. Its initial drug candidate being developed using the synthetic immuno-oncology platform is Ad-RTS-IL-12 + veledimex.