Cynapsus Signs Engagement Letter With Summer Street Research Partners to Provide Financial and Advisory Services
Marketwire, December 15, 2021
TORONTO, CANADA – Cynapsus Therapeutics Inc. (“Cynapsus”) (formerly Cannasat Therapeutics Inc.) (CTH: TSX-V) is pleased to announce that it has retained Summer Street Research Partners (“Summer Street”) to provide financial and advisory services.
Summer Street will serve as Cynapsus’ exclusive advisor on any potential financing, partnering, merger, or acquisition transactions. Summer Street and its Medical Consulting Research, Inc. (“MCRI”) operations look forward to supporting Cynapsus in achieving its future capital formation and strategic objectives.
“We are very pleased to be working with Summer Street and MCRI and having access to their deep expertise and knowledge of the life sciences industry,” says Anthony Giovinazzo, President and CEO of Cynapsus. “Since APL 130277 is a new delivery method of an approved drug, our goal remains to continue to pursue a shortened regulatory path that could see a new drug application being submitted in H2 2013 or early H1 2014.”
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About Summer Street Research Partners
Summer Street Research Partners is an investment banking, institutional equity research and trading firm that focuses exclusively on the healthcare sector. Summer Street’s mission is to help clients maximize returns by providing the best healthcare research, ideas and investment opportunities. The firm was founded in 2002, with a culture of providing a proprietary equity research product, utilizing more than 10,000 physicians and industry professionals provided through MCRI, a division of Summer Street Research Partners.
About Cynapsus Therapeutics
Cynapsus is a specialty clinical development pharmaceutical company targeting diseases of the brain. Cynapsus has a lower risk Parkinson’s drug candidate (“APL-130277”), which is a reformulation of an approved drug. APL-130277 is designed to address a much larger moderate to severe patient population, which represents close to 50% of Parkinson’s patients. Cynapsus also has a proprietary formulation technology for cannabinoid drug candidates, which may be used to treat neuropathic pain associated with multiple sclerosis and cancer, as well as for nausea/vomiting and appetite stimulation.
Cynapsus’ strategy is to grow its portfolio of drug candidates through in-licensing and acquisitions, and to advance projects to Phase 2 proof-of-concept clinical studies. Once the drug candidates are sufficiently de-risked, Cynapsus intends to out-license the programs to the appropriate pharmaceutical marketing partners for a combination of upfront, milestone, and royalty payments.
More information about Cynapsus (CTH: TSX-V) is available at www.cynapsus.ca.
About APL 130277
Cynapsus is developing APL 130277 as a convenient and fast acting reformulation of FDA-approved apomorphine (a proven dopamine agonist that addresses motor fluctuation for Parkinson’s patients). APL 130277 is a reformulation of the currently marketed injection into an oral formulation that will follow an expedited clinical development path of 18-24 months based on the FDA’s 505b(2) submission process. In addition to addressing the needs of severe Parkinson’s patients who currently have access to only the inconvenient and painful subcutaneous apomorphine injection, APL 130277 has the potential to become adjunctive therapy for moderate Parkinson’s patients as well. APL 130277 could be used 2 to 3 times daily to allow for a fast rescue of patients experiencing motor fluctuations in addition to therapy with various forms of levodopa.
Contact Information
Anthony Giovinazzo
President & CEO
W: (416) 703 2449 (Ext. 225)
[email protected]
Andrew Williams
COO & CFO
W: (416) 703-2449 (Ext. 253)
[email protected]
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes" or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Cynapsus to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those risks and uncertainties relating to Cynapsus’ business disclosed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Cynapsus' current Annual Information Form and its other filings with the various Canadian securities regulators which are available online at www.sedar.com. Although Cynapsus has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Cynapsus does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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