Acura Pharmaceuticals (OTCQB: ACUR) shares are up 5% on news that the company has entered into a License Agreement with MainPointe Pharmaceuticals, LLC in which MainPointe will exclusively market NEXAFED and NEXAFED Sinus in the U.S. and Canada. The NEXAFED brand products, which contain pseudoephedrine, utilize Acura’s IMPEDE® Technology, which disrupts the extraction and conversion of pseudoephedrine into the illicit drug methamphetamine. MainPointe will assume all manufacturing and commercialization activities from Acura. Per the agreement, MainPointe is required to make an upfront cash payment of $2.5 million to Acura, as well as royalty payments of 7.5% based on commercial sales by MainPointe. “With additional products in distribution and new customer contacts, MainPointe is well positioned to expand on the US pharmacy distribution achieved by Acura over the past several years,” Acura president and CEO Bob Jones stated in the news release.
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About Acura Pharmaceuticals
Acura Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of product candidates intended to address medication abuse and misuse, utilizing its proprietary LIMITX™, AVERSION® and IMPEDE® Technologies. LIMITX contains ingredients that are intended to reduce or limit the rate or extent of opioid release when multiple tablets are ingested. AVERSION contains polymers that cause the drug to gel when dissolved; it also contains compounds that irritate the nasal passages if the product is snorted. IMPEDE is designed to disrupt the processing of pseudoephedrine from tablets into methamphetamine. OXAYDO® (oxycodone HCl immediate-release tablets) which incorporates the AVERSION Technology, is FDA approved and marketed in the U.S. by the company’s partner Egalet Corporation. NEXAFED® and NEXAFED® Sinus, which are pseudoephedrine containing products, utilize the IMPEDE Technology. For more information, visit www.acurapharm.com.
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