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Richard Lowenthal

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Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And could get to therapeutic levels very, very easily with low doses that we maintain a good safety margin on when we consider.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

possible overabsorption from different conditions.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We stay very far south of where the limit is for inducing certain cardiovascular side effects, including cerebral hemorrhage, which can occur with epinephrine.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So you need to keep the dose low, and that was very, very important.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So that's a little bit of my background and how I got into

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

developing epinephrine nasal spray in NEFI in the very early days, about 10 years ago when we started this company.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Yeah, well, and as you said, I mean, in this market, EpiPen obviously is the most well-known product out there, and it's been around for about 40 years now.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So it's been a very helpful product for the community by having an option to inject epinephrine right away in a community setting in an emergency situation.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And that's really critical because the way these anaphylactic reactions progress is they start out with symptoms.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And if you stop that reaction, that allergic reaction, very, very quickly, early in the course of the reaction, typically epinephrine is very, very effective.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And also, if you stop it very, very early in the reaction,

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

there's less comorbidities and risk of hospitalization.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So early intervention is very, very important in this disease.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So auto-injectors have allowed that to occur more often.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

The problem is that people are very scared to use injection products.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

They're complicated to use in general.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And people don't especially like to inject their children.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So people tend to hesitate, wait.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

They don't carry the devices.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So what you have to do in a market like that where it is highly genericized is first you have to have a clinical differentiation.