NEW YORK AND LONDON
Celsus Therapeutics Plc (NASDAQ:CLTX), an emerging growth, development-stage biotech company, announced today that it held a pre-Investigational New Drug (pre-IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on February 12th, 2014, to discuss the regulatory pathway for the development of MRX-6 cream in atopic dermatitis, also known as eczema, an inflammatory skin disorder affecting 5% to 20% of children world-wide. The Company plans to file the IND for MRX-6 with the FDA in the fourth quarter of 2014, and initiate Phase II trials in the US in the first half of 2015.