Celsion Corporation to Hold Year-End 2016 Financia

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., March 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celsion Corporation (NASDAQ: CLSN ) announced today that the Company will host a conference call to discuss year-end 2016 financial results and provide an update on its development programs for ThermoDox®, its proprietary heat-activated liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin and GEN-1, an IL-12 DNA plasmid vector formulated into a nanoparticle with a non-viral delivery system at 11:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 16, 2017. To participate in the call, interested parties may dial 1-888-490-2763 (Toll-Free/North America) or 1-719-325-2481 (International/Toll) and ask for the Celsion Corporation 4 ^th Quarter 2016 Earnings Call (Conference Code: 8052561) to register ten minutes before the call is scheduled to begin. The call will also be broadcast live on the internet at www.celsion.com.

The call will be archived for replay on Thursday, March 16, 2017 and will remain available until Thursday, March 30, 2017. The replay can be accessed at 1-888-203-1112 (Toll-Free/North America) or 1-719-457-0820 (International/Toll) using Conference Code: 8052561. An audio replay of the call will also be available on the Company’s website, www.celsion.com, for 30 days after 2:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 16, 2017.

About Celsion Corporation

Celsion is a fully-integrated oncology company focused on developing a portfolio of innovative cancer treatments, including directed chemotherapies, immunotherapies and RNA- or DNA-based therapies. The Company's lead program is ThermoDox®, a proprietary heat-activated liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin, currently in Phase III development for the treatment of primary liver cancer and in Phase II development for the treatment of recurrent chest wall breast cancer.  The pipeline also includes GEN-1, a DNA-based immunotherapy for the localized treatment of ovarian and brain cancers.  Celsion has two platform technologies for the development of novel nucleic acid-based immunotherapies and other anti-cancer DNA or RNA therapies, including TheraPlas and TheraSilence.  For more information on Celsion, visit our website: www.celsion.com.

Celsion Investor Contact Jeffrey W. Church Sr. Vice President and CFO 609-482-2455 jchurch@celsion.com