Asterias Biotherapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Financial Results

Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American:AST), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing cell-based therapeutics to treat neurological conditions associated with demyelination and cellular immunotherapies to treat cancer, today reported financial and operational results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017, as well as recent corporate progress.

As quoted in the press release:

“We have continued to make significant progress in our spinal cord injury clinical program,” commented Michael Mulroy, President and Chief Executive Officer. “The additional results from the SCiStar study that we recently reported further support AST-OPC1’s positive safety profile and its potential to durably engraft and help restore upper extremity motor function improvement to individuals with severe cervical spinal cord injuries. Currently, these severely injured patients have no approved treatment options. We look forward to providing additional data readouts from the SCiStar study in 2018 into the first quarter of 2019.”

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