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Summit Therapeutics to Present Company Vision at 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Virtual Conference
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jan. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit” or the “Company”) today announced that it will
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[{"type":"text","content":" Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jan. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit” or the “Company”) today announced that it will present the Company’s vision and its intended future development pathways at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, January 10, 2022, at approximately 3:45 PM EST. Robert W. Duggan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Chief Operating Officer and a member of Summit’s Board of Directors, will provide details regarding Summit’s commitments towards its future research and clinical development goals, in addition to its current product pipeline. The presentation will be available the following day on the home page of our website: https://www.summittxinc.com. About Summit Therapeutics The overriding objective of Summit Therapeutics is to create value for patients, hospital caregivers, and community-based healthcare providers, as well as healthcare payers around the world. We seek to create value by developing drugs with high therapeutic efficacy - curing the cause or effect of the patient's condition with minimal or zero disease recurrence or antimicrobial resistance, for the longest extent possible - and minimizing the trauma caused to the patient and healthcare ecosystem by minimizing serious side effects, disease recurrence, and inaccessibility to our treatments as a result of financial or other barriers. Summit Therapeutics, empowered by its Discuva Platform, the Company’s innovative antibiotic discovery engine, and supported by BARDA and CARB-X funding, intends to be the leader in patient-friendly and paradigm-shifting treatments for infectious diseases and other significant unmet medical needs while being an ally to physicians. Our new era, novel mechanism pipeline product candidates are designed with the goal to become the patient-friendly, new-era standard of care, by working in harmony with the human microbiome to treat prospective patients suffering from infectious diseases, initially focusing on Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Currently, Summit’s lead product candidate, ridinilazole, is a novel, first-in-class drug engaged in a global Phase III trial program. Commercialization of ridinilazole is subject to regulatory approvals. SMT-738, the second candidate within Summit’s portfolio, is currently in the IND-enabli...