Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. issued the following announcement on March 24.Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: AMPE), a pre-revenue development stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of immunology based therapies to treat prevalent inflammatory conditions for which limited treatment options exist, announced today that it is preparing an expanded access FDA protocol to study potential benefit of nebulized treatment with Ampion in SARS-Cov-2 ("COVID-19") induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ("ARDS"), an immediately life-threatening condition.Ampio's Scientific Advisory Board ("SAB") members David Bar-Or, MD, Pablo Rubinstein, MD, and Edward Brody, MD, PhD, determined after a careful review of the published articles on the properties of Ampion, that nebulized Ampion may be suitable to treat another inflammatory indication.