SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of SCYNEXIS, Inc. - SCYX

NEW YORK, March 3, 2017

The investigation concerns whether SCYNEXIS and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices. 

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On March 2, 2017, post-market, Scynexis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has placed a clinical hold on clinical trials for the intravenous formulation of the Company's lead product candidate SCY-078, "until the FDA completes a review of all available pre-clinical and clinical data."  Scynexis advised investors that "[t]he clinical hold decision was issued by the FDA following a review of three mild-to-moderate thrombotic events in healthy volunteers receiving the IV formulation of SCY-078 at the highest doses and highest concentrations in a Phase 1 study." 

On this news, Scynexis's share price has fallen as much as $0.67, or 20.49%, during intraday trading on March 3, 2017.

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