Dan Camardo, Athersys CEO

Ather­sys’ woes con­tin­ue as As­pire Cap­i­tal ax­es its re­la­tion­ship with the biotech

While Ather­sys has been in the pen­ny stock twi­light zone since 2021, the com­pa­ny has hit sev­er­al ma­jor speed bumps in the past few months and this lat­est piece of news is an­oth­er hit against the biotech.

On Fri­day, the Cleve­land-based biotech an­nounced that its eq­ui­ty pur­chase agree­ment with As­pire Cap­i­tal Fund has been ter­mi­nat­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny, there were sev­er­al dis­cus­sions with As­pire Cap­i­tal be­fore the biotech re­ceived a no­tice on Wednes­day of the im­me­di­ate ter­mi­na­tion of the agree­ment, which had been in place since May 12.

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