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BIND Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results and Provides Corporate UpdateCAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIND), a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called Accurins™, today reported financial results and business highlights for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. "We have made exceptional progress in recent months, including the addition of highly experienced new members of our team who we believe will provide strong leadership for our business and clinical development strategy as well as the expansion of our pipeline," said Scott Minick, President and CEO. "Our new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hagop Youssoufian, has a deep and impressive track record of oncology-focused drug development and the addition of Dr. Eric Rowinsky and Ms. Amy Schulman to our board further strengthens our ability to achieve our business objectives. We are also continuing to build a robust pipeline and recently selected BIND-510, a PSMA-targeted Accurin containing vincristine, as our second internal product candidate. We believe BIND-510 has the potential to provide superior tumor targeting and become an important new drug in the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, offering improved outcomes for cancer patients." "We also entered into another collaboration with a leading biopharma through a research and development agreement with Merck that leverages BIND's medicinal nanoengineering platform to create targeted Accurins that utilize proprietary payloads provided from Merck's preclinical oncology portfolio for the treatment of cancer," continued Minick. "This represents a new kind of collaboration for BIND that provides another valuable pathway to expand our internal pipeline by giving BIND additional development and certain commercial rights in products resulting from the collaboration." Dr. Youssoufian said, "We remain on track with development of BIND-014, our lead proprietary drug candidate. We plan to present updated Phase 2 clinical data on BIND-014 in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at the 26th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Barcelona, Spain on November 19th. Our ongoing Phase 2 study with BIND-014 in metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) has enrolled 42 patients and we plan to present top-line data once all patients have reached radiographic progression, the primary endpoint in the study. In addition, we have begun activating sites in our Phase 2 study of BIND-014 in KRAS-mutant NSCLC and expect to begin an additional Phase 2 study in a number of other solid-tumor indications in early 2015." Recent Business Highlights
Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results
Financial Expectations The Company expects that its cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as of September 30, 2014 will fund operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements through at least September 30, 2015. This expectation is based on the Company's current operating plans and research and development funding that it expects to receive under its existing collaborations, but excludes any potential milestone payments. Upcoming Events and Presentations Members of BIND's management team plans to participate in the following upcoming conferences during the fourth quarter:
Live and archived webcasts of available events will be made accessible on the Company's website at www.bindtherapeutics.com. Conference Call Information BIND's management team will host a conference call and audio webcast today at 8:30 a.m. EST to discuss the third quarter 2014 results and provide a corporate update. To access the conference call, please dial (877) 312-5844 (domestic) or (253) 237-1152 (international) at least five minutes prior to the start time and refer to conference ID 24248993. An audio webcast of the call will also be available on the Investors & Media section of the Company's website www.bindtherapeutics.com. An archived webcast will be available on the Company's website approximately two hours after the event and will be available for 30 days. About BIND Therapeutics BIND Therapeutics is a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing Accurins, its novel targeted therapeutics. BIND is leveraging its Medicinal Nanoengineering® platform to develop a pipeline of Accurins, initially in oncology, as well as Accurins in collaboration with biopharmaceutical companies. BIND's lead drug candidate, BIND-014, is an Accurin that targets PSMA and contains docetaxel, a clinically-validated and widely used anti-cancer agent. BIND-014 is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. BIND has announced ongoing collaborations with Pfizer Inc., AstraZeneca AB, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Merck (known as Merck Sharp (News - Alert) & Dohme outside the United States and Canada) to develop Accurins based on their proprietary therapeutic payloads and targeting ligands. BIND's platform originated from the pioneering nanotechnology research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School of BIND's scientific founders Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Omid Farokhzad. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at www.bindtherapeutics.com. Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our expectations regarding our new Chief Medical Officer and board members; BIND-014, including without limitation, 2014 milestones with respect to trials of BIND-014; BIND-510, including without limitation, statements regarding BIND-510's potential and our plan to file an IND Application for BIND-510 in 2016; our collaboration agreement with Merck; and upcoming events and presentations. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the fact that the Company has incurred significant losses since its inception and expects to incur losses for the foreseeable future; the Company's need for additional funding, which may not be available; raising additional capital may cause dilution to its stockholders or require it to relinquish rights to its technologies or drug candidates; the Company's limited operating history; failure to use and expand its medicinal nanoengineering platform to build a pipeline of drug candidates and develop marketable drugs; the early stage of the Company's development efforts with only one drug candidate in clinical development; failure of the Company or its collaborators to successfully develop and commercialize drug candidates; clinical drug development involves a lengthy and expensive process, with an uncertain outcome; delays or difficulties in the enrollment of patients in clinical trials; serious adverse or unacceptable side effects or limited efficacy observed during the development of the Company's drug candidates; inability to maintain any of the Company's collaborations, or the failure of these collaborations; the Company's reliance on third parties to conduct its clinical trials and manufacture its drug candidates; the Company's inability to obtain required regulatory approvals; any conclusion by the FDA that BIND-014 does not satisfy the requirements for approval under the Section 505(b)(2) regulatory approval pathway; the inability to obtain orphan drug exclusivity for drug candidates; failure to obtain marketing approval in international jurisdictions; any post-marketing restrictions or withdrawals from the market; effects of recently enacted and future legislation; failure to comply with environmental, health and safety laws and regulations; failure to achieve market acceptance by physicians, patients, or third-party payors; failure to establish effective sales, marketing and distribution capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties with such capabilities; effects of substantial competition; unfavorable pricing regulations, third-party reimbursement practices or healthcare reform initiatives; product liability lawsuits; failure to retain key executives and attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel; difficulties in managing our growth; risks associated with operating internationally, including the possibility of sanctions with respect to our operations in Russia; failure to obtain and maintain patent protection for or otherwise protect our technology and products; effects of patent or other intellectual property lawsuits; the eligibility of a significant portion of the Company's total outstanding shares to be sold into the market, which could cause the market price of its common stock to drop significantly; increased costs as a result of operating as a public company; and any securities class action litigation. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC (News - Alert), on August 7, 2014, and our other reports filed with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
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