Idera to Present at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and EXTON, Pa., Jan. 05, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. IDRA, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing toll-like receptor and RNA therapeutics for patients with cancer and rare diseases, today announced that the company will present at the 34^th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time (2:00 p.m. Eastern Time) at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. Idera's Chief Executive Officer, Vincent Milano will present a corporate overview and update and Sudhir Agrawal, D. Phil., Idera's President of Research will present an overview of the company's 3^rd generation antisense drug development platform.

Live audio webcast of Idera's presentation will be accessible in the Investors and Media section of Idera's website at http://www.iderapharma.com. An archived version will also be available on the Company's website after the event for 90 days. As a convenience to investors, a copy of the company's presentation will be posted on the Idera corporate website at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, January 11, 2016.

About Idera Pharmaceuticals

Idera Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel nucleic acid-based therapies for the treatment of certain cancers and rare diseases. Idera's proprietary technology involves using a TLR-targeting technology, to design synthetic oligonucleotide-based drug candidates to act by modulating the activity of specific TLRs. In addition to its TLR programs, Idera is developing a third generation antisense technology platform that it has created using its proprietary technology to inhibit the production of disease-associated proteins by targeting RNA. To learn more about Idera, visit www.iderapharma.com.