Acer Therapeutics Compliant with All Nasdaq Listing Criteria
12/29/2022 - 08:30 AM
NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acer Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ACER), a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and life-threatening diseases with significant unmet medical needs, today announced that The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC has formally notified Acer that the company has regained compliance with the $35 million market value of listed securities requirement, and otherwise satisfies all other criteria necessary, for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market. Accordingly, the listing matter is now closed and the previously-scheduled hearing before the Nasdaq Hearings Panel has been cancelled.
About Acer Therapeutics Acer is a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and life-threatening diseases with significant unmet medical needs. In the U.S., OLPRUVA™ (sodium phenylbutyrate) is approved for the treatment of urea cycle disorders (UCDs) involving deficiencies of carbamylphosphate synthetase (CPS), ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC), or argininosuccinic acid synthetase (AS). Acer is also advancing a pipeline of investigational product candidates for rare and life-threatening diseases, including: OLPRUVA™ (sodium phenylbutyrate) for treatment of various other inborn errors of metabolism, including Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD); ACER-801 (osanetant) for treatment of induced Vasomotor Symptoms (iVMS) and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); EDSIVO™ (celiprolol) for treatment of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) in patients with a confirmed type III collagen (COL3A1) mutation; and ACER-2820 (emetine), a host-directed therapy against a variety of viruses, including cytomegalovirus, Zika, dengue, Ebola and COVID-19. For more information, visit www.acertx.com .
Acer Contacts Corporate contact: Jim DeNike Acer Therapeutics Inc.jdenike@acertx.com +1-844-902-6100
Investor contact: Nick Colangelo Gilmartin Groupnick@gilmartinIR.com +1-332-895-3226
ACER Rankings
#4010 Ranked by Stock Gains
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Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing
Sector
Manufacturing
Tags
Health Technology, Pharmaceuticals: Major, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing
Country
US
City
Newton
About ACER
acer therapeutics is a biotech company, headquartered in cambridge, ma, that develops repurposed and reformulated medicines for the treatment of ultra-orphan diseases with significant unmet medical needs. acer's lead candidate, edviso™ (celiprolol), is the first pharmaceutical therapy seeking approval for patients with vascular-type ehlers-danlos syndrome (veds). ehlers-danlos syndrome is a group of hereditary disorders of connective tissue with no ethnic predisposition. veds is a subtype characterized by severe arterial dissections, ruptures and early death. complications are rare in childhood, but affect 25% of patients before the age of 20, and 80% by the age of 40. median age of death is estimated to be around 50 years. patients are diagnosed by clinical symptoms and confirmed by presence of mutations in the col3a1 gene. there are approximately 2,000 documented patients, but prevalence could be as high as 5,000 patients in the u.s. (pepin 2014). there are no specific pharmacologica