Conference Call and Webcast Today at 8:30 a.m. ET

MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocugen, Inc., (NASDAQ: OCGN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing a pipeline of innovative therapies that address rare and underserved eye diseases, today reported financial highlights for the third quarter of 2019 and a business update.

This is an exciting time for Ocugen as weve completed our merger and are now a publicly traded company, commented Shankar Musunuri, PhD, MBA, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Ocugen. We are focused on advancing our clinical and preclinical programs, which includes completing enrollment in our Phase 3 clinical trial of OCU300, our product candidate that has received orphan drug designation from the FDA and is being developed for the treatment of ocular graft versus host disease (oGVHD) and furthering our IND-enabling studies for OCU400, our first gene therapy product candidate with two distinct orphan drug designations. We believe our new strategic partnership with CanSinoBIO will be instrumental in accelerating the progress of our modifier gene therapy platform closer to the clinic. We are working to meet several milestones over the course of the next few years that we believe will continue to add value to Ocugen shareholders.

Third Quarter 2019 and Recent Highlights:

Third Quarter 2019 Financial Highlights

Conference Call and Webcast Details

The Company has scheduled a conference call and webcast for8:30 a.m. ETtoday to discuss the financial and recent business highlights. Ocugen's senior management team will host the call, which will be open to all listeners. There will also be a question and answer session following the prepared remarks.

The call can be accessed by dialing (844) 987-9316 (domestic) or (602) 563-8454 (international) and providing the conference ID 9979278. To access a live audio webcast of the call on the Investors section of the Ocugen website, please click here. A replay of the webcast will be archived on Ocugens website for approximately 45 days following the call.

About Ocugen, Inc.Ocugen, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing a pipeline of innovative therapies that address rare and underserved eye diseases. The Company offers a robust and diversified ophthalmology portfolio that includes novel gene therapies, biologics, and small molecules and targets a broad range of high-need retinal and ocular surface diseases. Ocugen is leveraging its groundbreaking modifier gene therapy platform to address genetically diverse inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) and dry AMD, based on nuclear hormone receptor genes NR2E3 (OCU400) and RORA (OCU410), respectively. OCU400 has received two orphan drug designations (ODD) targeting two distinct IRDs. Ocugen is also developing novel biologic therapies for wet-AMD, diabetic macular edema and diabetic retinopathy (OCU200), as well as for retinitis pigmentosa (OCU100). The Companys late-stage Phase 3 trial for patients with ocular graft versus host disease (oGVHD)(OCU300) leverages Ocugens patented OcuNanoE Ocugens ONE Platform technology to enhance the efficacy of topical ophthalmic therapeutics. OCU300 is the first and only therapeutic with ODD for oGVHD, providing certain regulatory and economic benefits. For more information, please visit http://www.ocugen.com.

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We may, in some cases, use terms such as predicts, believes, potential, proposed, continue, estimates, anticipates, expects, plans, intends, may, could, might, will, should or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from the Companys current expectations. These and other risks and uncertainties are more fully described in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including the risk factors described in the section entitled Risk Factors in our Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234127) and our Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Reg. No. 333-232147), as amended, filed with the SEC by Ocugen, Inc. (f/k/a Histogenics Corporation) . Any forward-looking statements that the Company makes in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date of this press release.

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