NEW YORK, March 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ICPT) (Intercept), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel bile acid therapeutics to treat chronic liver and intestinal diseases, today announced that it will report 2013 full year financial results after the NASDAQ Market closes on Friday, March 14, 2014. Intercept management will conduct a conference call and audio webcast on Monday, March 17, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. EDT to discuss these results and provide an update on the company's business.
Date: March 17, 2014
Time: 8:30 AM ET
Listen via Internet: http://ir.interceptpharma.com/
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Toll-free: (855) 232-3919
International: (315) 625-6894
A replay of the call will be available on Intercept's website approximately two hours after the completion of the call and will be archived for two weeks.
Intercept is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics to treat orphan and more prevalent liver and intestinal diseases utilizing its expertise in bile acid chemistry. The company's lead product candidate, obeticholic acid (OCA), is a bile acid analog and first-in-class agonist of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR). OCA is being developed for a variety of chronic liver diseases including primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), portal hypertension, bile acid diarrhea and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). OCA has received orphan drug designation in both the United States and Europe for the treatment of PBC and PSC. Intercept owns worldwide rights to OCA outside of Japan and China, where it has out-licensed the product candidate to Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP). For more information about Intercept, please visit the Company's website at: www.interceptpharma.com.