Sprout Pharmaceuticals

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Pharma reviving Boehringer’s female sexual dysfunction drug gets $17.6M

Using a compound that Boehringer Ingelheim abandoned two years ago, Sprout Pharmaceuticals is taking a $20 million step toward developing a drug therapy specifically for hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in women. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based drug company has raised $17.6 million of a $20 million round of financing, according to a recent U.S. Securities […]

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Sprout Pharma takes root raising $5M for sexual dysfunction drug

Could a female Viagra be developed? Sprout Pharmaceuticals wants to find out if it can make a so-called pink Viagra and it’s picking up where German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim left off. Sprout acquired flibanserin, a compound that Boehringer pursued as a drug to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD — essentially, diminished sexual […]