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Graft-Versus-Host Disease

DOR BioPharma Announces Potential $30 Million North American Partnership Agreement with Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals for orBec(R) in the Treatment of Graft-versus-Host Disease

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 1st, 2009

DOR BioPharma, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DORB) (DOR or the Company) announced that it has signed a potential $30 million partnering agreement with Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Sigma-Tau) for the development and commercialization in North America of orBec(R) (oral beclomethasone dipropionate or Oral BDP).

As part of the agreement, Sigma-Tau will make a $6 million upfront investment in DOR, inclusive of the $1.5 million which was recently completed under a letter of intent dated November 26, 2008. The remaining $4.5 million investment was priced at a 50% premium to the five day trailing average of DOR stock, putting the investment price at $0.18 per share. In...

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