Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2017 Financial Results

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Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:CPRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for people with rare debilitating, chronic neuromuscular and neurological diseases, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year-ended December 31, 2017. As quoted in the press release: “Throughout 2017, we made significant progress in successfully completing our second Phase 3 …

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:CPRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for people with rare debilitating, chronic neuromuscular and neurological diseases, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year-ended December 31, 2017.

As quoted in the press release:

“Throughout 2017, we made significant progress in successfully completing our second Phase 3 trial evaluating Firdapse for the treatment of Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS) and successfully completing the required abuse liability studies that confirmed that Firdapse does not exhibit abuse potential. We also continued to build our rare neuromuscular disease platform as we prepared to enroll subjects in our Phase 3 clinical trial for MuSK antibody positive myasthenia gravis and our proof-of-concept clinical trial for spinal muscular atrophy Type 3,” said Patrick J. McEnany, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. “We remain on track to resubmit our NDA for Firdapse this quarter, and we are actively engaged in pre-commercialization activities for a potential launch of Firdapse.”

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