September 18, 2007 8:00am EDT
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MIAMI, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OPKO Health Inc. (Amex: OPK)
today announced that it will present at the UBS 2007 Global Life Sciences
Conference on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 11:30 am EDT. The conference
will be held at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City.
OPKO senior management will provide a review of recent corporate
developments.
The audio portion of the company's presentation will be webcast live. It
can be accessed at the Investors Relations section of the OPKO Health website
at www.opko.com . An archived version of the webcast will be available for 30
days beginning three hours after the start of the presentation. The live and
archived audio webcast can also be accessed at the UBS website at
http://events.streamx.us/us/event/eventdetails.aspx?id=ubs20070924 .
About OPKO Health, Inc.
Miami-based OPKO is a specialty healthcare company. Its lead
investigational drug, the pioneering gene silencing agent bevasiranib, has
entered a pivotal Phase 3 trial after successfully completing Phase 2 trials
for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and macular
degeneration. OPKO is developing a preclinical pipeline of novel agents for
ophthalmic diseases, and it also intends to market diagnostic systems that
complement its therapeutic products. The company recently announced it has
entered into an agreement to acquire Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc. (OTI), a
provider of innovative patient imaging systems to eye care professionals
worldwide. For more information visit www.opko.com .
This press release contains "forward-looking statements," as that term is
defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA),
which statements may be identified by words such as "expects," "plans,"
"projects," "will," "may," "anticipates," "believes," "should," "intends,"
"estimates," and other words of similar meaning, including statements
regarding our product development efforts, our ability to develop a
preclinical pipeline of novel agents for ophthalmic diseases, our ability to
market diagnostic systems that complement our therapeutic products, as well as
other non-historical statements about our expectations, beliefs or intentions
regarding our business, technologies and products, financial condition,
strategies or prospects. Many factors could cause our actual activities or
results to differ materially from the activities and results anticipated in
forward-looking statements. These factors include those described in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as risks inherent
in funding, developing and obtaining regulatory approvals of new,
commercially-viable and competitive products and treatments, including the
risks that enrollment of patients for the Phase 3 clinical trial for
bevasiranib, may not be successful, that the Phase 3 clinical trial itself may
not be completed on a timely basis or at all, that any of our compounds under
development, including bevasiranib, may fail, may not achieve the expected
results or effectiveness and may not generate data that would support the
approval or marketing of products for the indications being studied or for
other indications. In addition, forward-looking statements may also be
adversely affected by general market factors, competitive product development,
product availability, federal and state regulations and legislation, the
regulatory process for new products and indications, manufacturing issues that
may arise, patent positions and litigation, among other factors. The forward-
looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date
the statements were made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update
forward-looking statements. We intend that all forward-looking statements be
subject to the safe-harbor provisions of the PSLRA.
Corporate: GendeLLindheim BioCom Partners
Steven D. Rubin Barbara Lindheim
305 575-6015 212 918-4650
SOURCE OPKO Health Inc.
Released September 18, 2007
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