Ranking Profile - La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company

Introduction

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (La Jolla) discovers, develops and commercializes biopharmaceutical products for life-threatening diseases. The company’s major product includes the US FDA approved Giapreza, an injection for intravenous infusion indicated to increase blood pressure in adults with septic or other distributive shock and Xerava (eravacycline), is an injection of tetracycline class antibacterial for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI) in adults. Its investigational product candidates include LJPC-0118 intended for the treatment of severe malaria and LJPC-401, a proprietary formulation of synthetic human hepcidin, an endogenous peptide hormone intended for the prevention of excessive iron accumulation in vital organs. The company sells Giapreza to hospitals in the US through a network of wholesale and specialty distributors. La Jolla is headquartered in San Diego, California, the US.