NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals Reports Full Year 2020 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Strategic Update
Acquisition of ANA Therapeutics provides late-stage COVID-19 clinical development program with numerous key inflection points in 2021
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BOSTON, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRBO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing multimodal disease-modifying therapies for viral, neuropathic and neurodegenerative diseases, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2020 and provided a corporate strategic update.
"In December 2020, we significantly expanded our clinical pipeline with the acquisition of ANA Therapeutics and the addition of lead drug candidate, ANA001, a proprietary oral niclosamide formulation, currently in a 60-patient Phase 2/3 trial as a treatment for moderate to severe COVID-19," stated Richard J. Kang, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of NeuroBo. "The recent approval of the Contingent Value Rights (CVR) Agreement amendment from a majority of the company's CVR holders incentivizes our evaluation of Gemcabene as a treatment for COVID-19 and expands our pipeline in this indication of continued urgent need. We have a series of potentially value creating milestones over the next twelve months related to our development programs to treat COVID-19. Regarding our Phase 2 trial for ANA001, we expect to report the data monitoring committee safety results, pharmacokinetic (PK) data and the top-line data readout. We also look forward to releasing preclinical