NEW YORK, July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP:
- Do you, or did you, own shares of BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BTAI)?
- Did you purchase your shares between December 15, 2021 and June 28, 2023, inclusive?
- Did you lose money in your investment in BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc.?
- Do you want to discuss your rights?
Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (“BioXcel” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BTAI) between December 15, 2021 and June 28, 2023, inclusive (the “Class Period”). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against the Company and certain of its officers (the “Complaint”).
If you purchased or acquired BioXcel securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
According to the Complaint, BioXcel is a biopharmaceutical company that claims it uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) approaches to develop medicines in neuroscience and immuno-oncology. The Company states that it leverages existing approved drugs and clinically evaluated product candidates together with big data and proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify new therapeutic indications. BioXcel claims that its most advanced clinical development program is BXCL501, which is purportedly a proprietary, orally dissolving, film formulation of dexmedetomidine (or “Dex”) for the treatment of agitation associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Among other things, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the Company lacked adequate internal controls over protocol adherence and data integrity; (2) as a result, the Company’s principal investigator failed to adhere to the informed consent form approved by the Institutional Review Board; (3) the Company’s principal investigator failed to maintain adequate case histories for certain patients whose records were reviewed by the FDA; (4) the Company’s principal investigator fabricated email correspondence with a pharmacovigilance safety vendor that was then provided to the FDA; and (5) the foregoing would negatively impact the Company’s ability to obtain regulatory approval of BXCL501 for the treatment of agitation associated with dementia in patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease.
On December 15, 2021, the Company announced that it had initiated a program to evaluate BXCL501 for the treatment of acute agitation associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
However, on June 29, 2023, before the market opened, BioXcel disclosed, among other things, that its principal investigator for a Phase 3 clinical trial had failed to “adhere to the informed consent form approved by the Institutional Review Board” for some subjects and failed to maintain adequate case histories for certain patients whose records were reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration.
On this news, BioXcel’s stock price fell $11.28 per share, or 63.8%, to close at $6.39 per share on June 29, 2023.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 5, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn’t require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased or acquired BioXcel securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Contact Information:
Peter Allocco
Bernstein Liebhard LLP
https://www.bernlieb.com
(212) 951-2030
pallocco@bernlieb.com
