BioTime to Participate on Industry Perspectives Roundtable at NEI Audacious Goals in Regenerative Medicine Workshop: Pathways for Retinal Cell Replacement Therapies

BioTime, Inc. BTX, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on degenerative diseases, today announced that Francois Binette, Senior Vice President and BioTime's Head of Global Development, will participate in a panel discussion at the National Eye Institute Conference at 10:15am ET/7:15am PT on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland.

This conference is bringing together key academic and industry opinion leaders in the field of retinal disease regenerative medicine to discuss current state of science and clinical development, ongoing challenges and future directions to treat blindness. The discussion will be moderated by Ilyas Singec, National Center for Advancing Translational Services.

About BioTime, Inc.

BioTime is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on degenerative diseases. Its clinical programs are based on two platform technologies: cell replacement and cell/drug delivery. With its cell replacement platform, BioTime is producing new cells and tissues with its proprietary pluripotent cell technologies. These cells and tissues are developed to replace those that are either rendered dysfunctional or lost due to degenerative diseases or injuries. BioTime's cell/drug delivery programs are based upon its proprietary HyStem^® cell and drug delivery hydrogel matrix technology. HyStem^® was designed, in part, to provide for the transfer, retention and/or engraftment of cellular replacement therapies. HyStem^® is a unique hydrogel that has been shown to support cellular attachment and proliferation in vivo. Current research at leading medical institutions has shown that HyStem^® is compatible with a wide variety of cells and tissue types including brain, bone, skin, cartilage, vascular and heart tissues. Due to the unique cross-linking chemistry, HyStem^® hydrogels have the ability to mix cells, biologics and small molecule drugs and can be injected or applied as a gel which allows the hydrogel to conform to a cavity or space. This property of HyStem^® hydrogels offers several distinct advantages over other hydrogels, including the possibility of combining bioactive materials with the hydrogel at the point of use. BioTime is also developing HyStem^® for the delivery of therapeutic drugs and cells to localized areas of the body, including for sustained drug release in the targeted anatomical sites. BioTime's lead cell delivery clinical program is Renevia^®, which consists of HyStem^® combined with the patient's own adipose (fat) derived tissue or cells. Renevia^® met its primary endpoint in an EU pivotal clinical trial for the treatment of facial lipoatrophy in HIV patients in 2017. BioTime has submitted Renevia^® for CE Mark approval in the EU. There were no device related serious adverse events reported to date. BioTime's lead cell replacement product candidate is OpRegen^®, a retinal pigment epithelium transplant therapy, which is in a Phase I/IIa multicenter clinical trial for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. There have been no unexpected serious adverse events reported to date. BioTime also has significant equity holdings in two publicly traded companies, Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. AST and OncoCyte Corporation OCX, and a private company, AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.

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