GARDEN CITY, N.Y. and REHOVOT, Israel, May 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AIT Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AITB), a clinical-stage medical device and biopharmaceutical company focused on developing inhaled Nitric Oxide (NO) for the treatment of patients with respiratory conditions, including serious lung infections and pulmonary hypertension, today announced an oral presentation to be given by Mark Rimkus, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, as part of a session on pulmonary hypertension on May 28 at the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) 2019 Congress being held on May 25-29, 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland. The Company will also present a poster.  Both the presentation and poster are entitled: “On-Demand Nitric Oxide for Ventilator-Based Nitric Oxide Inhalation: A Risk-Reduction Perspective.”

“We are honored to share with the ISAM attendees the potential benefits of our ventilator-compatible Nitric Oxide Generator and Delivery System over current nitric oxide systems,” said Steve Lisi, Chairman and CEO.  “We believe that our generator-based system can provide enormous benefits to hospitals around the world, and may one day even provide patients with a potential at-home solution.”

Details for the presentation are as follows:

Oral Presentation  

Session:	Session 5, Disease Focus: Pulmonary Hypertension
Title:	On-Demand Nitric Oxide for Ventilator-Based Nitric Oxide Inhalation: A Risk-Reduction Perspective
Date:	Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Time:	9:20am – 9:40 am CET
Location:	Montreux Music and Convention Center, Miles Davis Hall

Poster Presentation

Session:	New Devices and Emerging Therapies
Title:	On-Demand Nitric Oxide for Ventilator-Based Nitric Oxide Inhalation: A Risk-Reduction Perspective
Date:	May 26, 2019
Time:	3:30pm – 4:00pm and 5pm – 6pm CET
Location:	Montreux Music and Convention Center, Level A4

About Nitric Oxide (NO)
Nitric Oxide (NO) is a powerful molecule proven to play a critical role in a broad array of biological functions. In the airways, NO targets the vascular smooth muscle cells that surround the small resistance arteries in the lungs and is used in adult respiratory distress syndrome and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate.  Additionally, NO is believed to play a key role in the innate immune system and in vitro studies suggest that NO possesses anti-microbial activity not only against common bacteria, including both gram-positive and gram-negative, but also against other diverse organisms, including mycobacteria, fungi, yeast and parasites, and has the potential to eliminate multi-drug resistant strains.

About PPHN
Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is a lethal condition and a secondary to failure of normal circulatory transition at birth. It is a syndrome characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) that causes labile hypoxemia due to decreased pulmonary blood flow and right-to-left shunting of blood. Its incidence has been reported as 1.9 per 1000 live births (0.4–6.8/1000 live births) with mortality rate ranging between 4–33%. This syndrome complicates the course of about 10% of infants with respiratory failure and remains a source of considerable morbidity and mortality. NO gas is a vasodilator, is approved in dozens of countries to improve oxygenation and reduces the need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (EMO) in term and near-term (>34 weeks gestation) neonates with hypoxic respiratory failure associated with clinical or echocardiographic evidence of pulmonary hypertension in conjunction with ventilator support and other appropriate agents.

About AIT Therapeutics Inc.
AIT Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical-stage medical device and biopharmaceutical company developing a revolutionary NO Generator and Delivery System that uses NO generated from ambient air and delivers precise amounts of NO to the lungs for the potential treatment of respiratory and other diseases. The AIT NO Delivery System can generate up to 400 ppm of NO for delivery either continuously or for a fixed amount of time and has the ability to either titrate dose on demand or maintain a constant dose.  The Company is currently applying its therapeutic expertise to develop treatments for pulmonary hypertension in various settings, in addition to treatments for lower respiratory tract infections that are not effectively addressed with current standards of care. AIT is currently advancing its revolutionary NO Generator and Delivery System in clinical trials for the treatment of bronchiolitis and severe lung infections such as nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). For more information, visit www.AIT-Pharm.com.

The AIT NO Generator and Delivery System is not approved by any regulatory agency and is in the development stage.

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CONTACT
Steven Lisi, Chief Executive Officer
AIT Therapeutics, Inc.
Steve@AIT-Pharm.com

Bob Yedid
LifeSci Advisors, LLC
Bob@LifeSciAdvisors.com
(646) 597-698