bioStrategies’ study supports $249m sale of Merck’s Aggrastat® to Iroko

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago, IL — January 31, 2008

bioStrategies' commercial due diligence helps support Irokos’s purchase of Aggrastat™ from Merck for $249m.

Iroko Pharmaceuticals, LLC acquired from Merck the ex-US rights to Aggrastat® (tirofiban hydrochloride), a GP IIb/IIIa product used to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome.

For more information about the study, please contact Mike Kaestle.

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