Ionis Pharmaceuticals to Provide Corporate Update at 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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Apr 08, 2019, 16:05 ET

CARLSBAD, Calif., April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced that management will present a general corporate update in conjunction with its 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Open House on Thursday, June 6 at 2:10 p.m. Pacific Time (5:10 p.m. Eastern Time) in Carlsbad, CA.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

2:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. PT – Annual Meeting of Stockholders (for stockholders of record as of April 8, 2019)
2:10 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT – Corporate Presentation by Stanley T. Crooke, M.D., Ph.D., Ionis' chairman and chief executive officer
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. PT – Meet and Mingle Session and Open House

A live webcast of the presentations will be available on the Investors & Media section of the Ionis website. The replays will be available within 48 hours and will be archived for a limited time.

If you plan to attend the meeting, please RSVP by visiting the "Investors & Media" page at www.ionispharma.com.

ABOUT IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
As the leader in RNA-targeted drug discovery and development, Ionis has created an efficient, broadly applicable, drug discovery platform called antisense technology that can treat diseases where no other therapeutic approaches have proven effective. Our drug discovery platform has served as a springboard for actionable promise and realized hope for patients with unmet needs. We created the first and only approved treatment for children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy as well as the world's first RNA-targeted therapeutic approved for the treatment of polyneuropathy in adults with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis. Our sights are set on all the patients we have yet to reach with a pipeline of more than 40 novel medicines designed to treat a broad range of diseases including cardiovascular diseases, neurological diseases, infectious diseases, pulmonary diseases and cancer.

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