FibroGen To Host Part I of Virtual KOL Investor Event Series to Review Pamrevlumab Clinical Program in Pancreatic Cancer on February 13, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FibroGen, Inc. (NASDAQ: FGEN) today announced it will host Part I of a virtual KOL investor event series on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 10:30 AM ET. To register, click here.

The event will feature Andrew Ko, MD (University of California San Francisco (UCSF), UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Vincent Picozzi, MD, MMM (Virginia Mason Digestive Disease and Cancer Institutes, Virginia Mason Medical Center), who will discuss the unmet medical need and current treatment landscape for pancreatic cancer, as well as the clinical development program for pamrevlumab*, a potential first-in-class monoclonal antibody targeting connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) for pancreatic cancer treatment.

The event will include information on the mechanism of action of pamrevlumab as well as a review of the pre-clinical and Phase 1/2 data for pamrevlumab and the two ongoing trials: the innovative Precision Promise℠ Phase 2/3 trial being conducted by the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) for metastatic pancreatic cancer, and the LAPIS Phase 3 trial in locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

A live question and answer will follow the formal presentations.

The second event in the series, to be scheduled at a later date, will include a review of the development program for FG-3246; a Phase 2 ready CD46 targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

This series is intended for investor audiences only.

About Andrew Ko, MD
Andrew Ko, MD completed his medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA) before moving out west to complete his oncology training at Stanford University. He is currently a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and a member of UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His primary clinical and research interests center on gastrointestinal cancers, with a particular emphasis on pancreatic and gastroesophageal malignancies. He has been responsible for developing and leading numerous clinical trials evaluating novel therapeutic strategies for these disease indications (ranging from novel cytotoxics to molecular targeted agents to immunotherapies) supported by industry collaborators, the National Cancer Institute, and various consortia/foundations. His work also entails efforts to identify individual patient/tumor characteristics that influence prognosis and response to specific therapies, including both tissue- and blood-based biomarkers. In addition to his role as Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Oncology since 2016, he is currently chair of the NCI’s Pancreatic Cancer Task Force; has served on the scientific program committee, grants committee, and specialty editorial board for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); has played a leadership role within the GI Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology to shepherd new trial concepts in pancreatic cancer through this national cooperative group; and sits on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Pancreatic Cancer guidelines committee.