Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion: ImaRx Therapeutics Speculative Buy Rating In Updated Coverage By Dutton Associat
July 01 2008 - 11:15AM
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Dutton Associates updates its coverage of ImaRx Therapeutics
(Nasdaq:IMRX) maintaining a Speculative Buy rating and a $1 target
price. The 9-page report by Dutton senior analyst Denise T. Resnik,
M.S. is available at www.jmdutton.com as well as from First Call,
Bloomberg Professional, Zacks, Reuters, Knobias, and other leading
financial portals. We continue to believe that ImaRx�s microbubble
technology may offer a medically important alternative to other
stroke therapies currently marketed and in development.
Lipid-coated microbubbles represent a new class of agents with both
diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Microbubbles have low
density, and stabilizing them with lipid coatings imparts unusual
properties for diagnostic imaging and drug delivery.
Perfluorocarbon (PFC) gases trapped within lipid coatings make
microbubbles sufficiently stable for circulation in the
vasculature. Research has shown that microbubbles can be cavitated
(expanded and contracted) with ultrasound energy to deliver
site-specific bioactive materials when the microbubbles are
associated with therapeutic agents and can be used in the treatment
of vascular thrombosis when the microbubbles do not carry drug. We
also believe that the monetization of urokinase represents a
non-dilutive mechanism for ImaRx to raise funds for the
continuation of its microbubble clinical program. However, the
Company has two large hurdles at this time. It must be able to
successfully conduct the additional stability testing now required
by the FDA, and it must find a mechanism to monetize urokinase or
otherwise develop another source of income to use to further its
clinical program. While the results from the previously-terminated
TUCSON SonoLysis clinical trial have not been made public, we
expect the success of the Company will ride on those results as
well. About Dutton Associates Dutton Associates is one of the
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in our one-year continuing research program is US $35,000 prepaid
for 4 Research Reports, typically published quarterly, and
requisite Research Notes. Dutton Associates received $35,000 from
the Company for 4 Research Reports with coverage commencing on
2/19/2008. The Firm does not accept any equity compensation. Our
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