Healthcare M&A » By The Online Investor Staff, updated Sat., Aug. 17, 10:42 AM
Recent mergers and acquisitions in the Healthcare M&A category.
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Slide #86. Mast Therapeutics — Aires Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Acquirer:
Mast Therapeutics (MSTX)
Acquiree:
Aires Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Details:
Mast Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MSTX) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aires Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Aires' lead product candidate, AIR001, is an intermittently nebulized formulation of nitrite that has orphan drug designation in the U.S. and European Union for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Savara is a biopharmaceutical company developing clinical-stage therapies for serious or life-threatening diseases. Co.'s key product candidate, AIR001, a sodium nitrite solution for inhalation via nebulization, is in Phase 2 clinical development for the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), also known as diastolic heart failure or heart failure with preserved systolic function. Co.'s other product candidate, Vepoloxamer, is a purified poloxamer 188, a nonionic, block copolymer comprised of a central linear chain of hydrophobic polyoxypropylene flanked on both sides by linear hydrophilic polyoxyethylene chains.
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