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PRNewswire - December 17, 2001
Lance Ignon, Vice President of Corporate Communications, will discuss the status of VaxGen's Phase III trials and plans to manufacture the company's HIV/AIDS vaccine, AIDSVAX, if it proves effective and receives regulatory approval. VaxGen is the only company with preventive HIV/AIDS vaccines in Phase III clinical trials, the final stage before regulatory approval can be sought. The presentation will also include a discussion of VaxGen's early-stage plans to develop additional vaccines, including those intended to prevent infection by viruses that could be released in a bio-terrorist attack.
To register, please call 800-992-4683 or visit the Informed Investors web site at http://www.informedinvestors.com. To view and hear the presentation via the Internet, please visit http://www.vaxgen.com/invest at the scheduled time and select "click to listen" next to VaxGen's name. There is also a link to the forum through http://www.informedinvestors.com.
VaxGen is located in Brisbane, Calif. For more information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.vaxgen.com.
AIDSVAX(R) is a registered trademark of VaxGen.
Note: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors that may cause VaxGen's actual results to be materially different from historical results, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, uncertainties related to the progress, costs and results of the Company's Phase III clinical trials, the progress of other internal research and development projects, including those aimed at bio-terrorism, the Company's ability to demonstrate efficacy of AIDSVAX in clinical trials, the Company's ability to obtain regulatory approval to market AIDSVAX, the Company's ability to secure commercial-scale manufacturing for AIDSVAX, the Company's ability to secure funding for new projects, including those aimed at bio-terrorism, the Company's ability to initiate development of vaccines directed against other viruses, and the effectiveness of any vaccines directed against other viruses. Reference should be made to VaxGen's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2001, under the headings "Factors Affecting Future Results" and "Business" and to VaxGen's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2001, under the heading "Risk Factors," for a more detailed description of such factors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date of this release. VaxGen undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events, or circumstances after the date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated events.
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