Recro Pharma to Participate in Hospital Drug Launch Panel at the JMP Life Sciences Conference

MALVERN, Pa., June 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recro Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq:REPH), a revenue generating specialty pharmaceutical company focused on therapeutics for hospital and other acute care settings, today announced that Gerri Henwood, Recro Pharma’s President and Chief Executive Officer, will be speaking on an expert panel on June 21, 2017 at the JMP Life Sciences Conference, taking place at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

Ms. Henwood will be featured on a panel titled “Hospital Drug Launches: The Formulary Process,” to provide her perspective on developing pain products for use in the hospital setting. The panel will follow a presentation by Dr. Christopher Gharibo, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Orthopedics at NYU School of Medicine on the same topic.

“I look forward to discussing Recro Pharma’s perspective on novel, non-opioid pain treatment alternatives and navigating through the hospital formulary adoption process,” said Gerri Henwood, Recro Pharma’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “It is an exciting time at Recro Pharma, as we now have the data from three successful Phase 3 trials in hand and are advancing toward a New Drug Application filing in early third quarter 2017.  There is a dearth of non-opioid alternatives for the treatment of acute, moderate to severe, post-operative pain, and successful navigation of the formulary process will be a critical component in our planned hospital launch.”

The panel will also comprise industry executives from Edge Therapeutics, Inc. and Trevena Inc.

About Recro Pharma, Inc.

Recro is a specialty pharmaceutical company that operates through two business divisions, an Acute Care, hospital product division and a revenue-generating contract development and manufacturing, or CDMO division, located at the Company’s Gainesville facility. The Acute Care division is primarily focused on developing innovative products for hospital and other acute care settings. The Company’s lead product candidate is a proprietary injectable form of meloxicam, a long-acting preferential COX-2 inhibitor.  IV meloxicam has successfully completed four Phase II clinical trials in the management of moderate to severe post-operative pain and two pivotal Phase III clinical efficacy trials in patients following bunionectomy and abdominoplasty surgeries, as well as a large double blind Phase III safety trial and other safety studies.  As injectable meloxicam is in the non-opioid class of drugs, the Company believes it will overcome many of the issues associated with commonly prescribed opioid therapeutics, including respiratory depression, constipation, excessive nausea and vomiting, as well as having no addictive potential while maintaining meaningful analgesic effects for relief of pain. The Company’s CDMO division leverages its formulation expertise to develop and manufacture pharmaceutical products using its proprietary delivery technologies and other manufacturing services for commercial partners who commercialize or plan to commercialize these products. These collaborations can result in revenue streams including royalties, profit sharing, research and development and manufacturing fees, which support continued operations for its CDMO division and it contributes non-dilutive funding for the development and pre-commercialization activities of its Acute Care division.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward looking statements reflect Recro's expectations about its future performance and opportunities that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. When used herein, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "upcoming," "plan," "target", "intend" and "expect" and similar expressions, as they relate to Recro or its management, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward looking statements are based on information available to Recro as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause Recro’s performance to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward looking statements. Recro assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Recro’s actual performance to materially differ from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this press release include, without limitation: results and timing of the clinical trials of injectable meloxicam, the preparation and filing of other portions of the drug application, including CMC, the ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of injectable meloxicam, and the labeling under any such approval, regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries; the Company’s ability to achieve its financial goals, including financial guidance; the Company’s ability to raise future financing for continued development and the payment of milestones; the Company’s ability to pay its debt; customer product performance and ordering patterns, the performance of third-party suppliers and manufacturers; the Company’s ability to obtain, maintain and successfully enforce adequate patent and other intellectual property protection; and the successful commercialization of injectable meloxicam. In addition, the forward looking statements in this press release should be considered together with the risks and uncertainties that may affect Recro’s business and future results included in Recro’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov. Recro assumes no obligation to update any such forward looking statements.

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Media Contact:
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Investor Relations Contact:
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Recro Pharma, Inc.
Michael Celano
(484) 395-2413
mcelano@recropharma.com

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