Austral Pacific Energy Ltd Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 15, 2011
Austral Pacific Energy Ltd (AEN, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-06-30.

Adeona Pharmaceuticals Inc has a market cap of $23.24 million; its shares were traded at around $0.79 with and P/S ratio of 7.34.

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On January 28, 2011, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with institutional investors, relating to the offering and sale of 2,857,144 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share and warrants to purchase 1,428,572 shares of common stock. We raised gross proceeds of $4,000,000, before estimated offering expenses of approximately $300,000, which includes placement agent fees. The offering was made pursuant to the our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-166750), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 14, 2010.

On April 6, 2011, we entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with an institutional investor, relating to the offering and sale of 1,688,782 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share and a warrant to purchase 844,391 shares of common stock. We raised gross proceeds of $3,500,000, before estimated offering expenses of approximately $250,000, which includes placement agent fees. The offering was made pursuant to the our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-166750), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 14, 2010.

This ongoing clinical trial previously received a $5 million grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) in partnership with the NMSS s Southern California chapter, with support from the National Institutes of Health and $860,440 in grant funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In November 2010, the Trimesta multiple sclerosis trial was awarded $244,480 under the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program. In March 2011, additional grant funding of $409,426 was received from the NMSS, and in May 2011, grant funding of $1,594,553 was received from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. These recent grants resulted after review of the clinical program. With over $8 million in grant funding to date, the ongoing Trimesta clinical trial should be funded to its completion.

On May 6, 2010, we and Pipex, our wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a sublicense agreement with Meda AB, a multi-billion dollar international pharmaceutical company, pursuant to which Meda AB assumed all future development costs and may commercialize flupirtine for fibromyalgia in the U.S. As consideration for such sublicense, we received an up-front payment of $2.5 million and are entitled to milestone payments of $5 million upon the FDA s acceptance of the New Drug Application (NDA) for flupirtine for fibromyalgia and $10 million upon FDA approval of such NDA. Pursuant to the sublicense agreement, we will also receive a 7% royalty on sales of flupirtine for fibromyalgia in the United States, Canada and Japan, with such royalties being shared equally with our licensor, McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital.

According to the “Zinc for the Common Cold Review” prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration® and published in 2011, the common cold is one of the most widespread illnesses, with adults having two to four episodes annually. In the United States, the common cold leads to 75 to 100 million physician visits annually at a conservative cost estimate of $7.7 billion per year. Americans spend $2.9 billion on over-the-counter drugs and another $400 million on prescription medicines for symptomatic relief. More than one-third of patients who saw a doctor received an antibiotic prescription, which has implications for antibiotic resistance from overuse of such drugs. An estimated 22 to 189 million school days are missed annually due to the common cold. As a result, parents missed 126 million workdays to stay home to care for their children. When added to the 150 million work days missed by employees suffering from a cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $20 billion per year. This accounts for 40% of time lost from work. The complications of the common cold include otitis media, sinusitis and exacerbations of reactive airway diseases. Rhinoviruses are the most frequent cause and may account for nearly 80% of common colds during autumn.

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