Article: Essential Therapeutics Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Maret Pharmaceuticals; Acquisition Adds Hematology/Oncology/Anti-infective Product Development Candidates and Programs.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Essential Therapeutics announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Maret Pharmaceuticals in a stock-for-stock exchange. Maret is a development stage pharmaceutical company with clinical and preclinical programs focused in hematology, oncology and the prevention of serious infectious diseases. Maret's programs include a small molecule lead product for restoring blood cell counts following myeloablative therapies, currently in Phase I clinical trials. Potential clinical uses for the lead product candidate include the prevention of thrombocytopenia, anemia and infection in myelosuppressed patients following chemotherapy or bone ...

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