Westport, CT, July 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioSig Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BSGM) (BioSig or the Company), a medical technology company commercializing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve signal fidelity and uncover the full range of ECG and intra-cardiac signals, today announced that Jerry Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer of ViralClear Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a majority owned subsidiary of BioSig, will be participating in the B Riley FBR Infectious Disease Summit -- Part III: Therapeutics Fast and Curious: Race to Finding Cures for Several Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19 on July 21, 2020. The panel segment is Arresting the Viral Replication Cycle.

Speaking Information:Event: B. Riley FBR Virtual Infectious Disease Summit - Part III: Therapeutics Fast and Curious: Race to Finding Cures for Several Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19Panel: Arresting the Viral Replication CycleDate: Tuesday, July 21, 2020Time: 1:15 PM ET

If you are an institutional investor and would like to attend the event, please contact Andrew Ballou, Vice President, Investor Relations ataballou@biosigtech.com.

About BioSig Technologies BioSig Technologies is a medical technology company commercializing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve signal fidelity and uncover the full range of ECG and intra-cardiac signals (www.biosig.com).

The Companys first product, PURE EP(tm) System is a computerized system intended for acquiring, digitizing, amplifying, filtering, measuring and calculating, displaying, recording and storing of electrocardiographic and intracardiac signals for patients undergoing electrophysiology (EP) procedures in an EP laboratory.

About ViralClear Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Merimepodib (MMPD)BioSig Technologies, Inc.s (BSGM) subsidiary, ViralClear Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is seeking to develop a novel pharmaceutical called merimepodib to treat patients with COVID-19. Merimepodib is intended to be orally administered, and has demonstrated broad-spectrum in vitro antiviral activity, including strong activity against SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures. Merimepodib was previously in development as a treatment for chronic hepatitis C and psoriasis by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Vertex), with 12 clinical trials (7 in phase 1 and 5 in phase 2) with over 400 subjects and patients and an extensive preclinical safety package was completed. A manuscript titled, The IMPDH inhibitor merimepodib provided in combination with the adenosine analogue remdesivir reduces SARS-CoV-2 replication to undetectable levels in vitro, was submitted to an online peer-reviewed life sciences journal. This manuscript is authored by Natalya Bukreyeva, Rachel A. Sattler, Emily K. Mantlo, John T. Manning, Cheng Huang and Slobodan Paessler of the UTMB Galveston National Laboratory and Dr. Jerome Zeldis of ViralClear Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ViralClear) as a corresponding author. This article highlights pre-clinical data generated under contract with Galveston National Laboratory at The University of Texas Medical Branch.

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