Nutra Pharma Acquires Remaining Interest in Biopharmaceutical Drug Discovery Company - ReceptoPharm, Inc.
Boca Raton, FL–Nutra Pharma Corp., a biotechnology company that is developing drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis, has announced that on April 10, 2008, it had acquired the remaining outstanding equity in its drug discovery holding, ReceptoPharm, Inc. (“Receptopharm”).
“We are extremely pleased to have ReceptoPharm join the Nutra Pharma family as our wholly-owned drug discovery subsidiary,” commented Rik J. Deitsch, Chairman and CEO of Nutra Pharma Corporation. “ReceptoPharm is developing drugs that have tremendous potential in the biopharmaceutical markets. They have already successfully completed initial preclinical trials and we hope to see continued success through Phase II human trials. We have and will continue to work closely with ReceptoPharm to help bring these drugs to market,” he concluded.
Prior to the acquisition, Nutra Pharma owned 38.1% of ReceptoPharm. The April 10, 2008 acquisition of the remaining interest in Receptopharm provided Nutra Pharma with 100% of the outstanding ReceptoPharm stock and complete ownership of the ReceptoPharm intellectual property. In return, ReceptoPharm shareholders received 30 million shares of Nutra Pharma’s common stock.
“Joining the Nutra Pharma family provides us with the resources needed to complete our various clinical trials,” commented Paul Reid, CEO of ReceptoPharm. “We look forward to initiating several additional human trials in 2008 and 2009,” he added.
ReceptoPharm is currently studying RPI-MN as a treatment for HIV and RPI-78M as a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN). In December, ReceptoPharm successfully completed its six-month patient crossover in the Phase IIb/IIIa clinical trial for the treatment of AMN.
