Press Release: The Trout Group : Protalix BioTherapeutics Announces Acceptance of Abstract on OPRX-106 as a Lecture Presentation at the Digestive Diseases Week® 2018

CARMIEL, Israel, March 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American:PLX) (TASE:PLX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins expressed through its proprietary plant cell-based expression system, ProCellEx®, today announced that an abstract detailing the results from the Company's phase IIa clinical trial of OPRX-106 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis results has been accepted for a lecture presentation at the Digestive Disease Week® 2018 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The lecture presentation titled "A novel orally administered recombinant anti-TNF alpha fusion protein for the treatment of mild to moderate ulcerative colitis: results of a Phase IIa clinical trial showing promising results" is scheduled to take place at 5:01 pm, ET, as part of a session entitled Immunology, Microbiology & Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IMIBD) Section Distinguished Abstract Plenary which is taking place on June 4, 2018 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, ET. The conference is being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, June 2-5, 2018.