OPKO Health to Participate in the 31st Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference

MIAMI, Nov. 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OPKO Health, Inc. (OPK) today announced that Company management will be participating in the 31st Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference being held December 3-5, 2019 at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City.  Management will be hosting one-on-one meetings with investors and will be presenting in a “Fireside Chat” format on Wednesday, December 4 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.

The “Fireside Chat” will be webcast live and available for replay in the Investors section of OPKO Health’s website and accessible by clicking here.

About OPKO Health, Inc.
OPKO Health is a diversified healthcare company.  In diagnostics, its BioReference Laboratories is one of the nation's largest full-service clinical laboratories; GeneDx is a rapidly growing genetic testing business; the 4Kscore® prostate cancer test is used to assess a patient’s individual risk for aggressive prostate cancer following an elevated PSA and to help decide about next steps such as prostate biopsy; Claros® 1 is a point-of-care diagnostics platform with a total PSA test approved by the FDA.  In our pharmaceutical pipeline, RAYALDEE is our first pharmaceutical product to be marketed.  OPK88003, a once-weekly oxyntomodulin for type 2 diabetes and obesity reported positive data from a Phase 2 clinical trial.  It’s among a new class of GLP-1/glucagon receptor dual agonists.  OPK88004, a SARM (selective androgen receptor modulator) is currently being studied for various potential indications.  The company’s most advanced product utilizing its CTP technology, a once-weekly human growth hormone for injection, successfully met its primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints in a Phase 3 study and is partnered with Pfizer.  OPKO also has research, development, production and distribution facilities abroad.  More information is available at www.opko.com

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Contacts:

LHA Investor Relations
Yvonne Briggs, 310-691-7100
ybriggs@lhai.com
or
Bruce Voss, 310-691-7100
bvoss@lhai.com

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