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Citius Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Response and Guidance to Pre-IND Consultation Submission for Mino-Wrap

Citius Pharmaceutical | December 10, 2020

Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Citius" or the "Organization") (Nasdaq: CTXR), a strength drug organization zeroed in on creating and commercializing basic consideration drug items, declared its receipt of a composed reaction and direction from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Division of Anti-Infective Products to the Company's Pre-Investigational New Drug (Pre-IND) meeting demand for its Mino-Wrap preparation bundle. Through its worldwide permit concurrence with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Citius is creating Mino-Wrap, a novel way to deal with lessening post-mastectomy contaminations related with the utilization of a tissue expander. The preparation bundle contained data in regards to pre-clinical information and a clinical improvement plan, alongside inquiries for the FDA with respect to security and adequacy information that would be needed to progress Mino-Wrap into clinical preliminaries.

The FDA conceded a Written Response Only gathering with respect to direction and bearing on the Mino-Wrap advancement plan. The organization showed that bio retention reenactment studies may give data to help the improvement of Mino-Wrap and made recommendations on what should be given comparative with non-clinical help. The FDA gave direction on the plan of the medication elution contemplates and concurred that a huge creature pharmacology study would be fitting. They additionally concurred that a 28-day toxicology study seems suitable and that microbiology uphold through existing information is worthy.

"The FDA furnished us with important direction and affirmed some of our underlying plans on the advancement of Mino-Wrap," said Myron Holubiak, President and CEO of Citius Pharmaceuticals. "We are exceptionally satisfied to have direction uphold from the organization since this is quite an under-perceived issue, and current preventative measures have not yielded entirely worthy outcomes. We think we have a significant development for the prevention of post-employable diseases related with bosom reconstructive medical procedure after mastectomies."

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