Soleno Therapeutics Inc (SLNO) Price

Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. operates as clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California and currently employs 152 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-10-23. The firm is focused on developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases. The Company’s lead product candidate, diazoxide choline extended-release tablets (DCCR), is for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) in individuals four years and older who have hyperphagia. DCCR contains diazoxide choline, a potent ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel activator. DCCR tablets consist of the active ingredient diazoxide choline, a choline salt of diazoxide, which is a benzothiadiazine. Its proposed mode of action, with targets in the brain, pancreas and fat tissue, has the potential to broadly impact complex diseases like PWS to reduce appetite, reduce food-seeking, decrease insulin and leptin resistance, and reduce body fat. The firm has Breakthrough Therapy and Fast-Track designations in the United States and Orphan Drug designations in the United States and European Union.