Mallinckrodt: against COVID-19 Company

Entity: Mallinckrodt

Category: Treatment Development

Description: Mallinckrodt is a manufacturer of specialty pharmaceuticals (namely, adrenocorticotropic hormone), generic drugs and imaging agents. Mallinckrodt acquires (for repricing), manufactures, and distributes products used in diagnostic procedures and in the treatment of pain and related conditions. This includes the acquisition, manufacture, and distribution of specialty pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients, contrast products, and radiopharmaceuticals.

Project: Thiolanox

Summary: Mallinckrodt is working with Novoteris in a pharmaceutical nitric oxide gaseous formulation supplied via Mallinckrodt’s high-pressure cylinders at 5,000 ppm (0.5% v / v) nitric oxide gas for inhalation canisters. Novoteris and Mallinckrodt said April 1 that the Therapeutic Products Directorate of Health Canada cleared the companies' joint pilot clinical trial to investigate Thiolanox in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at Vancouver Coastal Health Authority facilities. The study is designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of Thiolanox in treating COVID-19 and its associated lung complications. The companies said they expected to begin recruiting patients in the coming days.
Technology: Treatment Development
Headquarters: United Kingdom
Founded Date: N/A
Employees Number: N/A
Funding Status: N/A

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