Esperion Therapeutics
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. is a lipid management company. The Company is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing oral, once-daily, non-statin medicines for patients struggling with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Its bempedoic acid and the bempedoic acid / ezetimibe combination tablets are oral, once-daily, non-statin, LDL-C lowering medicines for patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), or heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH). Its products include NEXLETOL, NILEMDO, NEXLIZET and NUSTENDI. NEXLETOL and NILEMDO are ATP Citrate Lyase (ACL) inhibitor that lowers LDL-C by reducing cholesterol biosynthesis and up-regulating the LDL receptors. NEXLIZET and NUSTENDI contains bempedoic acid and ezetimibe and lowers elevated LDL-C through complementary mechanisms of action by inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the liver and absorption in the intestine.