BioVaxys Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer Kenneth Kovan to Present at MedInvest Oncology Investor Conference
(Adnkronos) - VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV) (FRA: 5LB) (OTCQB: BVAXF) ("BioVaxys" or "Company") is pleased to announce that Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer Kenneth Kovan will be presenting at the MedInvest Oncology Investor Conference held in New York City on December 14-15, 2022.
In partnership with the National Foundation for Cancer Research, the MedInvest Oncology Investor Conference is the preeminent indication-specific investor conference. The attendees are active investors in the oncology space and oncology-focused companies seeking investment and partnering opportunities, and include leading life science and oncology venture capitalists, family offices, pharma executives, private and public cancer companies and foundations. The National Cancer Institute is this year's Conference Presenting Partner, with speakers such as Greg Simon, who recently was the President of the Biden Cancer "Moonshot" Initiative, leading immunologists and oncologists from Memorial Sloan Kettering and other institutions, and global pharma R&D.
Details of the presentation are as follows:
"BioVaxys is honored to be selected to speak at the MedInvest Oncology Investor Conference alongside a prestigious group of oncologists, investors, and life science companies. We look forward to sharing how we are leveraging our haptenized protein platform to create autologous cancer immunotherapies for ovarian cancer and other malignancies," said Mr. James Passin, CEO and Co-Founder of BioVaxys.
Mr. Kovan has over 30 years of experience in biopharma. Prior to founding BioVaxys Technology Corp., he served as Corporate Development Partner with gene editing leader Horizon Discovery plc in the United Kingdom, and is Managing Principal & Owner of Bingham Hill Ventures, a life sciences advisory practice he founded in 2012. He is an experienced former biotech CEO, and founder of biotechnology companies including Avax Technologies, Inc. Mr. Kovan's professional background includes technology transfer with Thomas Jefferson University, Strategic Marketing with SmithKline Beecham, and Global New Product Development with Wyeth-Ayerst. Mr. Kovan has a broad international business background, having launched pharma brands in Latin American and Asia/Pacific markets and led pharma development projects in Europe.
About BioVaxys Technology Corp.
Based in Vancouver, BioVaxys Technology Corp. (www.biovaxys.com) is a British Columbia-registered, clinical stage biotechnology company that is developing viral and oncology vaccine platforms, as well as immuno-diagnostics. The Company is advancing vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine based on its haptenized viral protein technology, and is planning a clinical trial of its haptenized autologous cell vaccine used in combination with anti-PD1 and anti-PDL1 checkpoint inhibitors that will initially be developed for Stage III/Stage IV ovarian cancer. Also in development is CoviDTH®, a diagnostic for evaluating the presence or absence of a T cell immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. BioVaxys has two issued US patents, and multiple US and international patent applications related to its cancer vaccines, antiviral vaccines, and diagnostic technologies. BioVaxys common shares are listed on the CSE under the stock symbol "BIOV" and trade on the Frankfurt Bourse (FRA: 5LB) and in the US (OTCQB: BVAXF).
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