Zevra Therapeutics Inc

NASDAQ:ZVRA

Zevra Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery and development of proprietary prodrugs. The company is headquartered in Celebration, Florida and currently employs 36 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-04-16. The firm is engaged in creating therapies for diseases with limited or no treatment options. The firm has a diverse portfolio of products and product candidates, which includes a combination of both a clinical-stage pipeline and commercial stage assets. The company employs its LAT platform technology to create a portfolio of approved products. Its product candidates include Arimoclomol, KP1077IH, KP1077N and AZSTARYS. Arimoclomol is an orally delivered, investigational product candidate being developed for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC). KP1077 is the Company's lead clinical development product candidate, which is being developed as a treatment for idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) and narcolepsy. KP1077 is comprised solely of serdexmethylphenidate (SDX), the Company's prodrug of d-methylphenidate (d-MPH). AZSTARYS is a prodrug for the treatment of ADHD in patients aged six years or older.