Senesco Announces Update on SNS01-T at ASCO

Senesco Technologies, Inc. (“Senesco” or the “Company”) (OTC QB:SNTI), announced that Alice Bexon, M.D., Senesco’s Vice President of Clinical Development, will present a poster at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Illinois.

Poster Session, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL (May 30 – June 3, 2014)
Date/Time: Monday, June 2, 2014; 1:15 PM to 5:00 PM (CT)
Location: S Hall A2, Poster Board: 300b
Session: Lymphoma and Plasma Cell Disorders
Poster Number: TPS8616: “Phase 1-2 open-label, multiple-dose, dose-escalation study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of intravenous infusion of SNS01-T, a first-in-class modulator of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF5A) in patients (pts) with relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies.” http://abstracts.asco.org/144/AbstView_144_129505.html

About SNS01-T

SNS01-T is a novel approach to cancer therapy that is designed to selectively trigger apoptosis in B-cell cancers such as multiple myeloma, and, mantle cell and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. Senesco is the sponsor of the Phase 1b/2a study that is actively enrolling patients at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center in Morgantown, WV, the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in Seattle, WA, and, the Pretoria East Hospital, in Pretoria and the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01435720?term=SNS01-T&rank=1

About Senesco Technologies, Inc

Senesco Technologies is a clinical-stage biotech company specializing in cancer therapeutics and immunological diseases driven by a unique combination of gene regulation and antibody therapeutics. Its proprietary gene regulation technology has demonstrated the ability to eliminate cancer cells and protect healthy cells from premature death. The antibody approach is a novel discovery paradigm with the proven capability to identify functional therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against challenging cell surface targets that previously have been highly resistant to therapeutic antibody discovery. The Company is currently in a Phase 1b/2a trial with a product candidate that is designed to treat B-cell cancers, which include multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphomas. The Company has several antibodies in its preclinical pipeline. The first to move forward is a potentially first/best in class candidate antibody that targets an ion channel important in autoimmunity and inflammation. For more information, please visit Senesco.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.

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