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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Announces that Results from a Preclinical Study of TNX-1900 Will be Presented in a Poster at the AAN Sports Concussion Virtual Conference
NEW YORK, July 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW YORK, July 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: TNXP) (Tonix or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that preclinical results of TNX-1900 (oxytocin solution for intranasal delivery) will be presented in a poster at the American Academy of Neurology’s first-ever Sports Concussion Conference. The research was sponsored by Trigemina, Inc. and in June Tonix acquired the assets of Trigemina including certain rights to the data described on the poster. Dr. Shashidhar Kori was formerly chief medical officer of Trigemina. Dr. David Yeomans and Dr. Michael Klukinov are on the faculty of Stanford University. Dr. Kori and Dr. Yeomans are currently consultants to Tonix. The virtual meeting is being held July 31 and August 1, 2020.\n Details of the poster presentation: Title: Intranasal (IN) Oxytocin Relieves Pain and Depressive Behavior in a Rodent Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Authors: Shashidhar H Kori, David Yeomans, Michael Klukinov Date and Time: The 2020 Sports Concussion Virtual Conference poster presentations will be available starting at 4:00 p.m. ET, Friday, July 31, 2020 About Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. Tonix is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, licensing, acquiring and developing small molecules and biologics to treat and prevent human disease and alleviate suffering. Tonix’s portfolio is primarily composed of central nervous system (CNS) and immunology product candidates. The immunology portfolio includes vaccines to prevent infectious diseases and biologics to address immunosuppression, cancer and autoimmune diseases. The CNS portfolio includes both small molecules and biologics to treat pain, neurologic, psychiatric and addiction conditions. Tonix’s lead vaccine candidate, TNX-1800*, is a live replicating vaccine based on the horsepox viral vector platform to protect against COVID-19, primarily by eliciting a T cell response. Tonix expects data from animal studies of TNX-1800 in the fourth quarter of this year. TNX-801*, live horsepox virus vaccine for percutaneous administration, is in development to protect against smallpox and monkeypox and serves as the vector platform on which TNX-1800 is based. Tonix is also developing TNX-2300*, a second live replicating vaccine candidate for the preventi...