Zevra Therapeutics is set to buy Acer Therapeutics in a deal worth up to $91 million, which finds the Florida-headquartered biotech with an additional two assets.
As a part of the deal, Zevra will absorb Acer’s urea cycle disorder treatment Olpruva (sodium phenylbutyrate), which secured an FDA approval in December last year, as well as beta-blocker celiprolol, which is in a Phase III vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome trial.
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