– Performance-Based Agreement Provides for Currax’s 72 Sales Representatives to Detail Esperion’s Products –
– Reinforces Esperion’s Focus on Driving Persistent Growth By More Than Doubling Sales Team–
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Esperion (NASDAQ:ESPR) today announced an agreement with Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC that provides for all of Currax’s 72 sales representatives to co-promote NEXLETOL® (bempedoic acid) Tablets and NEXLIZET® (bempedoic acid and ezetimibe) Tablets. This deal more than doubles the sales representatives for NEXLETOL and NEXLIZET and further demonstrates Esperion’s focus on driving persistent growth to the business.
“We are excited to partner with Currax through the end of 2023 to continue raising awareness of NEXLETOL and NEXLIZET,” said Sheldon Koenig, President and Chief Executive Officer of Esperion. “We believe this performance-based agreement that provides a more than doubling of our sales representatives will provide us with the opportunity to build on the significant momentum we’ve seen since the announcement of the positive results from our landmark Cholesterol Lowering via Bempedoic acid, an ACL-Inhibiting Regimen (CLEAR) Outcomes trial.”
“Our entire commercial organization is charged with driving additional awareness and utilization of NEXLETOL and NEXLIZET,” said George Hampton, president and chief executive officer of Currax. “This agreement aligns with Currax’s focus on patient access to critical medicines and is a win for patients, physicians and both companies.”
CLEAR Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial
CLEAR Outcomes is a Phase 3, event-driven, randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to evaluate whether treatment with NEXLETOL reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with or who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease with documented statin intolerance (inability to tolerate 2 or more statins, one at a low dose) and elevated LDL-C levels (fasting blood LDL-C ≥ 100 (2.6 mmol/L). The study, which includes nearly 14,000 patients at over 1,200 sites in 32 countries, accumulated the targeted 1,620 primary major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE-4) in August 2022.
