Pipex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: PP), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative late-stage drug candidates for the treatment of neurologic and autoimmune diseases, announced that it has received an Orphan Drug designation for oral tetrathiomolybdate (oral TTM) from the FDA for the treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a deadly pulmonary disease with no FDA-approved therapy.
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