EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- KineMed Inc., a privately held pathway-based drug discovery and development company announced today that David M. Fineman, CEO and President of KineMed, will present an overview of the company and its drug development programs at the 4th Annual BIO Investor Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m. PDT in the Pacific Heights room of the Palace Hotel. Mr. Fineman will provide an update on the company’s lead discovery and development programs centered on cardio-metabolic disorders including atherosclerosis, and diabetes and dyslipidemia. Mr. Fineman will also discuss KineMed’s internal drug development program in ALS and provide an overview on the company’s partnering and collaboration efforts, including KineMed’s clinical development collaborations with Merck & Co., Inc. and Merck KGaA to advance drugs that increase reverse cholesterol transport.
About KineMed
KineMed, Inc. (“KineMed” or the “Company”) is a drug discovery and development company employing its proprietary translational medicine technology (AquaTag(TM) and KineMarker(TM)) to both identify active drug candidates preclinically and confirm their therapeutic activity and dose response in first-in-man studies. KineMed’s technology expedites the drug development process and provides real-time insight into conditions including metabolic disorders, cancer, and diseases of inflammation and neurodegeneration. KineMed is working to develop drugs both on its own and with pharmaceutical collaborators in therapeutic focus areas where it can demonstrate functional modulation of specific biological pathways that mediate disease. The Company has multiple development programs with more than a dozen major pharmaceutical companies, including Bayer, Merck & Co., Inc., Merck KGaA, Organon and Roche.
For further information about KineMed, please visit: http://www.kinemed.com/
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CONTACT: Brent Vaughan, Chief Business Officer of KineMed Inc.,
+1-510-655-6525, ext. 110; Media, Justin Jackson of Burns McClellan,
jjackson@burnsmc.com, or Investors, John Cummings, jcummings@burnsmc.com,
both of Burns McClellan, +1-212-213-0006, both for KineMed Inc.
Web site: http://www.kinemed.com/
