NetworkNewsWire Announces Publication on Gene Therapy’s Promise for Improving Patient Treatments and Market Profitability


NEW YORK, March 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NetworkWire — NetworkNewsWire ("NNW"), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company, today announces the publication of an editorial featuring clinical-stage gene therapy company Genprex Inc. (GNPX), a client of NNW developing potentially life-changing technologies for cancer patients based upon a unique proprietary technology platform, including Genprex’s initial product candidate, Oncoprex(TM), immunogene therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 

To view the full publication, titled “Making Profits, Saving Lives with Gene Therapy,” visit: http://nnw.fm/Y0ZqH

Gene therapy isn’t exactly new. For years, companies such as Genprex Inc. (NASDAQ: GNPX) have been working on improvements to the technology and new ways to apply it in improving and saving lives. The highest profile work has been done in tackling cancer, an area in which Genprex specializes. The difficulty of treating cancer, combined with its origin in cell growth gone bad, makes gene therapy a natural fit for this area. But plenty of other uses have also been explored over the past three decades.

If gene therapy has been around for this long, why is now such an ideal time to invest?

One reason is that the industry has seen a series of mergers and acquisitions. Small-cap biotech company Spark Therapeutics, which specializes in gene therapy, was recently bought up by Roche for $4.8 billion, offering Spark investors a likely gain of 190 percent for this year. MeiraGTx Holdings, another small-cap gene therapy company, achieved an $80 million private placement, with Johnson & Johnson as its lead investor, pushing its shares up 67 percent so far this year. These and other moves show the interest of big medical companies in gene therapy.

About Genprex, Inc.

Genprex, Inc. is a clinical stage gene therapy company developing potentially life-changing technologies for cancer patients, based upon a unique proprietary technology platform, including Genprex’s initial product candidate, Oncoprex(TM) immunogene therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Genprex’s platform technologies are designed to administer cancer fighting genes by encapsulating them into nanoscale hollow spheres called nanovesicles, which are then administered intravenously and taken up by tumor cells where they express proteins that are missing or found in low quantities. Oncoprex has a multimodal mechanism of action whereby it interrupts cell signaling pathways that cause replication and proliferation of cancer cells, re-establishes pathways for apoptosis, or programmed cell death, in cancer cells, and modulates the immune response against cancer cells. Oncoprex has also been shown to block mechanisms that create drug resistance. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Genprex.com.

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