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Virios Therapeutics to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results and Provide Corporate Update on Thursday, March 17, 2022
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Virios Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIRI), a development-stage biotechnology company focused on advancing novel antiviral therapies
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[{"type":"text","content":" ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nVirios Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VIRI), a development-stage biotechnology company focused on advancing novel antiviral therapies to treat chronic diseases, including fibromyalgia, announced today that its fourth quarter and full year 2021 financial results will be reported on Thursday, March 17, 2022 before the open of the financial markets. Management will also host a webcast and conference call on March 17, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the results and provide a corporate update.\n\nThe live and archived webcast of the call may be accessed on the Virios Therapeutics website under the Investors section: Events and Presentations. The live call can also be accessed by dialing 888-506-0062 (domestic) or 973-528-0011 (international) using the access code: 102066.\n\nAbout Virios Therapeutics\n\nVirios Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VIRI) is a development-stage biotechnology company focused on advancing novel antiviral therapies to treat debilitating chronic diseases, such as fibromyalgia (“FM”). Immune responses related to the activation of tissue resident herpes have been postulated as a potential root cause triggering and/or sustaining chronic illnesses such as FM, irritable bowel disease (“IBS”), chronic fatigue syndrome and other functional somatic syndromes, all of which are characterized by waxing and waning symptoms with no obvious etiology. Our lead development candidate (“IMC-1”) is a novel, proprietary, fixed dose combination of famciclovir and celecoxib designed to synergistically suppress herpes replication, with the end goal of reducing virally promoted disease symptoms. IMC-1 has been granted fast track designation by the FDA and is currently being tested in a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b trial (“FORTRESS”) designed to set the stage for registrational studies. Evidence of IMC-1’s efficacy on a broad spectrum of FM outcome measures was previously demonstrated in a Phase 2a clinical trial.\n\nThe Company is pursuing a second development candidate, IMC-2 (valacyclovir and celecoxib) and has provided Bateman Horne Center (“BHC”) with an unrestricted grant to explore the therapeutic potential of combination antiviral therapy with IMC-2, in managing the fatigue, sleep, attention, pain, autonomic function and anxiety associated with Long COVID, otherwise known as...