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Ziopharm Oncology to Participate in Upcoming Conferences

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BOSTON, May 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ziopharm Oncology, Inc. (“Ziopharm” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ZIOP), a clinical-stage cellular therapy company focused on hematologic and solid tumor cancers, today announced that Company management will participate in two upcoming investor conferences:

The Jefferies Virtual Healthcare Conference, taking place June 1-4, 2021: Interim Chief Executive Officer Heidi Hagen and Chief Medical Officer Raffaele Baffa will participate in a fireside chat on June 4 at 1pm ET.

The Virtual Raymond James Human Health Innovations Conference, taking place June 21-23, 2021: Interim Chief Executive Officer Heidi Hagen will participate in a fireside chat on June 22 at 2:40pm ET.

Webcasts of the conference presentations will be available using links that will be posted on the Ziopharm website, www.ziopharm.com, in the Investor section.

About Ziopharm Oncology, Inc.
Ziopharm is a clinical stage biotech, developing non-viral and cytokine-driven cell and gene therapies that weaponize the body’s immune system to treat the millions of people globally diagnosed with cancer each year. Ziopharm’s pipeline is built for commercially scalable, cost effective T-cell receptor T-cell therapies based on its non-viral Sleeping Beauty gene transfer platform, and a rapidly manufactured Sleeping Beauty-enabled CD19-specific CAR-T program. The Company has clinical and strategic collaborations with leading public and private institutions including the National Cancer Institute and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. For more information, please visit www.ziopharm.com.

Investor Relations Contact:
Adam D. Levy, Ph.D., MBA
EVP, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
T: 508.552.9255
E: alevy@ziopharm.com


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Ziopharm Oncology is an immuno-oncology company focused on developing end-to-endcost-effective solutions using its non-viralSleeping Beauty platform for TCR and CAR T-cell therapies and immune-stimulating gene therapy with Controlled interleukin 12 (IL-12). The Sleeping Beauty platform genetically modifies T cells with DNA plasmids to express T-cell receptors (TCRs) to target specific antigens in solid tumors and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to target CD19 in blood cancers with the Company's 3rd generation T-cell manufacturing process, rapid personalized manufacture (RPM). The Sleeping Beauty platform is being advanced in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Eden BioCell. The Company also is developing its Controlled IL-12 platform, or Ad-RTS-hIL-12 plus veledimex, as monotherapy and in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat brain cancer, including in collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.