MENLO PARK, Calif., March 02, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced an abstract submitted by Janssen Research & Development, LLC describing non-clinical data on imetelstat has been accepted for presentation as a poster at the 2017 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting to be held in Washington, D.C. from April 1-5, 2017. The abstract is available on the AACR website at www.aacr.org.

Abstract Title: Telomerase inhibitor imetelstat in combination with the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax enhances apoptosis in vitro and increases survival in vivo in acute myeloid leukemia (Abstract #1101)

AACR Session Title:   Combination Therapy 1
Session Date:   Monday, April 3, 2017
Session Time:   8:00 a.m. ET - 12:00 p.m. ET

In accordance with AACR policies, abstracts submitted to the AACR Annual Meeting are embargoed from the time of submission. To be eligible for presentation at the AACR Annual Meeting, information contained in the abstract, as well as additional data and information to be presented at the Annual Meeting, may not be made public before the abstract has been presented in connection with the AACR Annual Meeting.

About Geron

Geron is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the collaborative development of a first-in-class telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, in hematologic myeloid malignancies. For more information about Geron, visit www.geron.com.

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