Zonagen

Sold Short for opening my eyes to the story at Zonagen.

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Though Zonagen was little more than a corporate shell after the Vasomax failure, the above-mentioned Joesph Podolski would not abandon ship.

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After this, Zonagen needed something new with which to excite investors.

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Zonagen would not develop any commercial product from research relating to the zona pellicula-despite naming itself after it.

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Here's a chart of Zonagen from 1995 through 2003 that shows the complete pump and dump of its shares.

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When Bhogal questioned the research methods or the work ethic at Zonagen, he says he was accused of being bossy and overly aggressive.

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However, unlike Pfizer, Zonagen repeated its experience from ImmuMax; it got a forty year old generic drug, phentolamine, dressed it up as something new, and acted as if it was a genuine Viagra competitor.

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However, I wonder if many shareholders in Repros have forgotten, or maybe never learned, that Repros is the same corporation as the discredited and oft-sued Zonagen.

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The compound, Chitosan, was indeed capable of causing some desirable effects within the immune system, but it also caused permanent scarring at injection point which made it useless for the sort of medicinal purposes Zonagen hoped to use it for.

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After abandoning ImmuMax, Zonagen moved on to its third, and most exciting, failed drug:

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