Geron Announces December Conference Presentation Webcasts

MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) today announced that John A. Scarlett, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the following investor conferences:

• Piper Jaffray 27^th Annual Healthcare Conference in New York at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. The live and archived webcast will be available at http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/u46tsbd2.
   
• Oppenheimer 26^th Annual Healthcare Conference in New York at 9:45 a.m. ET on December 9, 2015. The live and archived webcast will be available at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/opco/healthcare2015/84203554236.cfm.

Geron management will also be hosting an analyst and investor meeting to discuss imetelstat data presented at the 57^th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting:

• The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 5, 2015. The live and archived webcast will be available at http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/o3ovz2db/lan/en.

Following the live presentations, the webcasts will be archived and available for replay for a period of 30 days.

About Geron

Geron is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the collaborative development of a first-in-class telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, in hematologic myeloid malignancies. For more information about Geron, visit www.geron.com.

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