Hyperion Therapeutics Terminates DiaPep277(R) Program

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Needham & Company Maintains 'Buy' at Hyperion Therapeutics (HPTX)

September 8, 2014 3:45 PM EDT

Needham & Company analyst Alan Carr reiterated a Buy rating and $37 price target on Hyperion Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HPTX) after the company announced today that development of DiaPep277 has been discontinued.

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Hyperion Therapeutics (HPTX) Announces Termination of DiaPep277 Program

September 8, 2014 8:01 AM EDT

Hyperion Therapeutics (Nasdaq: HPTX) announced it is terminating development of DiaPep277 for newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes. The company has uncovered evidence that certain employees of Andromeda Biotech, Ltd., which Hyperion acquired in June 2014, engaged in serious misconduct, including collusion with a third-party biostatistics firm in Israel to improperly receive un-blinded DIA-AID 1 trial data and to use such data in order to manipulate the analyses to obtain a favorable... More