Business
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California-based biotech company Ligand Pharmaceuticals has acquired CyDex Pharmaceuticals and its Captisol solubility-enhancing technology. CyDex’s pipeline includes a Captisol-enhanced budesonide/azelastine nasal spray. Ligand will operate CyDex as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Read the company’s press release. Read more . . .
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A court in The Hague has ruled in favor of Sandoz and Hexal, both units of Novartis, agreeing that the Dutch portion of GSK’s European patent for Advair is not valid. GSK may appeal the… Read more . . .
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According to Alexza Pharmaceuticals, it plans to resubmit its NDA for AZ-004 (Staccato loxapine) for the treatment of agitation in schizophrenic patients in July 2011. The company received a complete response letter (CRL) for the… Read more . . .
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According to reports, Lincoln Pharmaceuticals of Ahmedabad, India has been awarded an Indian patent for a nasal formulation of ondansetron hydrochloride intended to prevent nausea and vomiting for chemotherapy patients. The company says that it… Read more . . .
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Aerogen has licensed its OnQ nebulizer technology to a San Francisco, California company, Dance Pharmaceuticals for development of a new inhaled insulin solution product. Dance founder John S. Patton was a co-founder of Inhale Therapeutics,… Read more . . .
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Civitas Therapeutics has obtained $20 million in Series A financing for development of its lead product, a DPI intended for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The assets Civitas has licensed from Alkermes include a pipeline,… Read more . . .
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Contract manufacturer Ritedose has voluntarily recalled unit dose vials of albuterol inhalation solution due to mislabeling. The single dose vials contain a 2.5 mg/3 mL solution but are labeled as 0.5 mg/3 mL. The product… Read more . . .
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A subsidiary of Footstar has entered into an agreement to acquire New Hampshire specialty pharma company CPEX, which is developing Nasulin intranasal insulin spray. Nasulin is in Phase 2 development, and CPEX has been seeking… Read more . . .
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Belgian pharma equipment manufacturer Procept and Spanish tech company Ingeniatrics Tecnologías have signed an agreement to develop a new spray drying system based on Ingeniatrics’ Flow Focusing technology, which is a "microfluidic technology capable of… Read more . . .
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Forest Laboratories has reached an agreement with Gruenenthal to reacquire the European rights to the Colobreathe colistin DPI for the treatment of P. aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis patients.The EMA is currently reviewing Forest’s marketing… Read more . . .
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