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Orchestra BioMed Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Provides a Business Update
NEW HOPE, Pa., Aug. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchestra BioMed Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OBIO, “Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW HOPE, Pa., Aug. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchestra BioMed Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OBIO, “Orchestra BioMed” or the “Company”), a biomedical innovation company accelerating high-impact technologies to patients through risk-reward sharing partnerships, today reported its second quarter 2024 financial results and provided a business update. \"Our work in hypertension and coronary artery disease aligns with a renaissance occurring in cardiac pacing and balloon angioplasty, applying new innovations to enhance these foundational device-based interventions and create more potent therapeutic solutions. At our inaugural R&D day in June, we were excited to share our insights into this renaissance and the potential role we believe our lead programs – AVIM therapy and Virtue SAB – will play in improving outcomes for patients. We were delighted to host esteemed cardiology leaders Drs. David Kandzari and Vivek Reddy, who highlighted the critical unmet needs in high-risk hypertension and expressed their enthusiasm for the potential of AVIM therapy to transform care for these patient populations,\" stated David Hochman, founder, chief executive officer, and chairman of Orchestra BioMed. \"As we look ahead to the second half of the year, we remain focused on driving patient enrollment in the BACKBEAT global pivotal study across the U.S. and EU, and look forward to providing key updates on our Virtue SAB program.” Second Quarter 2024 and Recent Business Update During its June 11th R&D Day, Orchestra BioMed provided an educational program on its lead asset, atrioventricular interval modulation (“AVIM”) therapy for the treatment of hypertension in high-risk patient populations. Orchestra BioMed has a strategic collaboration with Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) for the development and commercialization of AVIM therapy for the treatment of hypertension in patients indicated for a cardiac pacemaker. The replay of the webcast is available on the Orchestra BioMed website: link to webcast. The event featured presentations from key opinion leaders, David Kandzari, M.D., FACC, FSCAI and Vivek Reddy, M.D., focused on the unmet hypertension treatment need in older high-risk patients, the AVIM therapy mechanism of action, clinical data from the MODERATO I and II studies, and design of the BACKBEAT study. R&D Day Takeaways: Cardiac pacing and balloon angioplasty ...