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Atossa Therapeutics Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update
SEATTLE, May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company seeking to discover and develop
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[{"type":"text","content":"SEATTLE, May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company seeking to discover and develop innovative medicines in oncology and infectious disease with a current focus on breast cancer and COVID-19, today announces financial results for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2021, and provides an update on recent company developments. Key developments from Q1 2021 and to date include: Atossa concluded its open-label Phase 2 clinical study of oral Endoxifen administered in the “window of opportunity” between diagnosis of breast cancer and surgery based on positive results allowing acceleration of the Endoxifen program in the United StatesAnnounced updated findings following 24 months of an Expanded Access (or “compassionate use”) single-patient study of Endoxifen for breast cancer. The patient in the study had no cancer recurrence and suffered no side effects. Endoxifen did not cause other safety and tolerability concerns in this patientReceived a “Safe to Proceed” letter under the Expanded Access Pathway from the FDA permitting the use of Atossa’s oral Endoxifen as a treatment in an ovarian cancer patient and began treatmentAnnounced final results from its Phase 1 double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical study using Atossa’s proprietary drug candidate AT-301 administered by nasal spray. AT-301 was considered to be safe and well tolerated in healthy male and female participants in this study at two different dose levels over 14 days. AT-301 is being developed for at home use for patients recently diagnosed with COVID-19Completed financing transactions with net proceeds of approximately $136 million beginning in December 2020 through the end of Q1 Atossa’s 2021 Annual Stockholder Meeting is scheduled for today, May 14, 2021 at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. As part of the meeting, Atossa management has decided to withdraw from consideration the proposal to increase authorized shares of common stock by 325 million. “During the first quarter of 2021 we continued our two key development programs, namely our Phase 2 study of oral Endoxifen for the ‘window of opportunity’ between diagnosis of breast cancer and surgery and our Phase 1 study of AT-301 nasal spray for at-home use for patients recently diagnosed with COVID-19,” said Dr. Steven Quay, Atossa’s President and...