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The Nasdaq Panel has determined to continue the listing of the Company's securities on The Nasdaq Stock Market and is closing this matter
Four upcoming milestones expected: data from trials in Suicidal Bipolar Depression and Chronic Pain, NDA filing for IV Ketamine and distribution of shares of HOPE Therapeutics to existing shareholders
Recent unanticipated achievements related to intravenous ketamine and complicated Urinary Tract Infection/pyelonephritis
RADNOR, Pa., April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:NRXP) ("NRx Pharmaceuticals", "NRx", the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that (the "Company") has received confirmation from Nasdaq that they have demonstrated compliance with the Nasdaq bid price requirement in Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) and has determined to continue the listing of the Company's securities on The Nasdaq Stock Market and is closing this matter.
The Company is now in a position to reach four important milestones:
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Release of top-line data from its trial of NRX-101 in Treatment Resistant Suicidal Bipolar Depression
Release of top-line data from Northwestern University's Department of Defense funded trial of the main component of NRX-101 in Chronic Pain
NDA filing for IV Ketamine for treatment of Suicidal Depression
Planned distribution of shares of HOPE Therapeutics to existing shareholders
"We greatly appreciate the support of our investors through the process of protecting our Nasdaq listing," said Dr. Jonathan Javitt, Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of NRx Pharmaceuticals. "We are now poised to reach an important series of milestones, have the potential to be transformative to the company and dramatically enhance shareholder value. In addition to the near-term readouts and filings that we have identified for investors, recent unanticipated advances in the formulation of new forms of ketamine and potential use of NRX-101 in the treatment of complicated UTI and pyelonephritis have significant potential to create value for shareholders."
About NRx Pharmaceuticals
NRx Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics based on its NMDA platform for the treatment of central nervous system disorders, specifically suicidal bipolar depression, chronic pain and PTSD. The Company is developing NRX-101, an FDA-designated investigational Breakthrough Therapy for suicidal treatment-resistant bipolar depression and chronic pain. NRx has partnered with Alvogen and Lotus around the development and marketing of NRX-101 for the treatment of suicidal bipolar depression. NRX-101 additionally has potential to act as a non-opioid treatment for chronic pain, as well as a treatment for complicated UTI.
NRx has recently announced plans to submit a New Drug Application for HTX-100 (IV ketamine), through Hope Therapeutics, in the treatment of suicidal depression, based on results of well-controlled clinical trials conducted under the auspices of the US National Institutes of Health and newly obtained data from French health authorities, licensed under a data sharing agreement. NRx was awarded Fast Track Designation for development of ketamine (NRX-100) by the US FDA as part of a protocol to treat patients with acute suicidality.
About HOPE Therapeutics, Inc.
HOPE Therapeutics, Inc. (www.hopetherapeutics.com) is a Specialty Pharmaceutical Company, wholly-owned by NRX Pharmaceuticals focused on development and marketing of an FDA-approved form of intravenous ketamine for the treatment of acute suicidality and depression together with a digital therapeutic-enabled platform designed to augment and preserve the clinical benefit of NMDA-targeted drug therapy.
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