Tenax Therapeutics Announces Clearance of the Investigational New Drug Application for Imatinib in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)

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Oct 06, 2021

Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TENX),a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying and developing therapeutics that address cardio-pulmonary diseases with high unmet medical need, today announced that the FDA has reviewed and cleared its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a novel formulation of imatinib. Tenax intends to initiate in October, and complete before the end of 2021, a comparative pharmacokinetic (PK) study, bridging to the start of a Phase 3 trial of their delayed-release formulation for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).