• Cortex Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Irvine, Calif., completed a $500,000 private placement in common stock and warrants with Samyang Value Partners Co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Samyang Optics Co. Ltd., of Seoul, South Korea. The company completed an earlier private placement of $1.5 million in convertible promissory notes and warrants with Samyang Optics in January 2010. Cortex issued 6,765,466 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to an additional 1,691,367 shares of common stock to Samyang Value Partners.