- Company Hosting Business Update Webcast Today at 4:30pm ET -

NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA) (NASDAQ: SIGA), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market, today announced that Dr. Phillip L. Gomez, SIGA’s Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference in New York City at 8:35 am ET on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. To access the live webcast, please visit the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, under Events & Presentations.

Business Update Webcast

As previously announced, SIGA will host a business update webcast and conference call today at 4:30 P.M. ET.  The live webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company’s website.  Participants may also call (877) 407-6184 (United States/Canada) or (201) 389-0877 (International) and request the SIGA Technologies call or provide confirmation code 13683284.

A replay of both webcasts will also be available on the company’s Investor Relations website.

ABOUT SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. and TPOXX^®

SIGA Technologies, Inc. is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market. Health security comprises countermeasures for biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear attacks (biodefense market), vaccines and therapies for emerging infectious diseases, and health preparedness. Our lead product is TPOXX^®, also known as tecovirimat and ST-246®, an orally administered and IV formulation antiviral drug for the treatment of human smallpox disease caused by variola virus. TPOXX is a novel small-molecule drug of which 2 million oral courses have been delivered to the Strategic National Stockpile under Project BioShield. The oral formulation of TPOXX was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of smallpox on July 13, 2018. For more information about SIGA, please visit www.siga.com.

About Smallpox¹

Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. Naturally-occurring smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, the result of an unprecedented global immunization campaign. Samples of smallpox virus have been kept for research purposes. This has led to concerns that smallpox could someday be used as a biological warfare agent. A vaccine can prevent smallpox, but the risk of the vaccine's side effects is too high to justify routine vaccination for people at low risk of exposure to the smallpox virus.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and SIGA cautions you that any forward-looking information provided by or on behalf of SIGA is not a guarantee of future performance. More detailed information about SIGA and risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements, including the forward-looking statements in this press release, is set forth in SIGA's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including SIGA's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, and in other documents that SIGA has filed with the SEC. SIGA urges investors and security holders to read those documents free of charge at the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Interested parties may also obtain those documents free of charge from SIGA. Forward-looking statements are current only as of the date on which such statements were made, and except for our ongoing obligations under the United States of America federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Contacts:

Investors
David Carey
212-867-1768
dcarey@lazarpartners.com

Media
Stephanie Seiler
206-713-0124
sseiler@lazarpartners.com

¹http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/smallpox/basics/definition/con-20022769

Source: SIGA Technologies Inc.