airPharma
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
When it came time to build a pipeline, airPharma's founders turned to a product they knew well for their lead compound:a drug formerly marketed as Pumactant, for neonatal respiratory distress. This compound is an inhalable synthetic pulmonary surfactant. The symptoms of asthma have been associated with surfactant dysfunction.
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