ZIOPHARM to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw 19th Annual Global Investment Conference

BOSTON, Sept. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. ZIOP today announced that Laurence Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Rodman & Renshaw 19th Annual Global Investment Conference in New York on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. ET.

To access a live audio webcast of the presentation, please visit the Investor Relations section at www.ziopharm.com. The webcast will be archived for 90 days.

About ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc.:

ZIOPHARM Oncology is a Boston, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company employing innovative gene expression, control and cell technologies to deliver safe, effective and scalable cell- and viral-based therapies for the treatment of cancer and graft-versus-host-disease. The Company's immuno-oncology programs, in collaboration with Intrexon Corporation XON and the MD Anderson Cancer Center, include chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) and other adoptive cell-based approaches that use non-viral gene transfer methods for broad scalability. The Company is advancing programs in multiple stages of development together with Intrexon Corporation's RheoSwitch Therapeutic System® (RTS®) technology, a switch to turn on and off, and precisely modulate, gene expression in order to improve therapeutic index. The Company's pipeline includes a number of cell-based therapeutics in both clinical and preclinical testing which are focused on hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.

Contact:

David Pitts
Argot Partners
212-600-1902
david@argotpartners.com

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