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Liquidia Announces Poster Presentation and Medical Theater at the CHEST 2024 Annual Meeting
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liquidia Corporation (NASDAQ: LQDA), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for
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[{"type":"text","content":"MORRISVILLE, N.C., Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liquidia Corporation (NASDAQ: LQDA), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for patients with rare cardiopulmonary diseases, announced today the company will present a poster and host a medical theater at the CHEST 2024 annual meeting hosted by the American College of Chest Physicians on October 6-9, 2024, in Boston. Rajeev Saggar, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Liquidia, said: “Every year, CHEST unites the next generation of medical professionals and organizations responsible for advancing patient care and educating the future leaders in our field. As such, we are proud to be sharing insight regarding our ongoing ASCENT trial evaluating the safety and tolerability of YUTREPIA™ (treprostinil) inhalation powder in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (PH-ILD).” Liquidia’s poster, entitled “Baseline Characteristics of Patients Enrolled in the ASCENT Study: Evaluating Safety and Tolerability of YUTREPIA™, A Dry Powder Inhaled Treprostinil in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease (PH-ILD),” will be presented on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024, from 10:20 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. ET. The poster will focus on the company’s ongoing clinical trial, dosing and tolerability profiles, and exploratory efficacy endpoints for the use of YUTREPIA in PH-ILD patients in the ASCENT trial. Upon presentation, the poster will be available on Liquidia’s website at https://liquidia.com/products-and-pipeline/publications.The company’s medical theater, which will take place on October 7, 2024 from 12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET and is open to all meeting attendees, will focus on current epidemiologic data on PH-ILD, the clinical data gap regarding dry-powder treprostinil use in PH-ILD and how Liquidia’s ASCENT study is addressing this gap, as well as the future of PH-ILD treatments. About YUTREPIA™ (treprostinil) Inhalation PowderYUTREPIA is an investigational, inhaled dry-powder formulation of treprostinil delivered through a convenient, low-effort, palm-sized device. The FDA previously issued tentative approval of YUTREPIA for the PAH indication in November 2021. In July 2023, Liquidia filed an amendment to its New Drug Application for YUTREPIA, seeking to add PH-ILD to the label. YUTREPIA was designed using Liquidia’s PRINT®...