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According to the FDA’s latest update on the ongoing acetylcysteine inhalation solution shortage, all of American Regent/Luitpold’s product is still on back order due to “manufacturing delays,” and the company is still unable to estimate… Read more . . .
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The United States Court of Appeals has upheld a patent for Fortical calcitonin nasal spray held by Unigene Laboratories. Fortical, a bioequivalent of Novartis’s Miacalcin, is marketed in the US by Unigene subsidiary Upsher-Smith for… Read more . . .
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Aegis Therapeutics has received US Patent No. 7,998,927 for stabilized formulations of GLP-1 peptide analogs that can be delivered by a variety of different routes, including intranasal. All currently available GLP-1 formulations, which can control… Read more . . .
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Massacheusetts biotech company Pulmatrix has secured $14 million in additional funding from its existing investors, including Polaris Venture Partners, 5AM Ventures, Arch Venture Partners, and Novartis Venture Fund, bringing its total to $60 million. Terry… Read more . . .
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued US Patent No. 7,994,197, titled “Method of Therapeutic Administration of DHE to Enable Rapid Relief of Migraine while Minimizing Side Effect Profile,” to MAP Pharmaceuticals for its… Read more . . .
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Akela Pharma is looking for a buyer for its Taifun fentanyl development program after Teikoku Seiyaku returned Japanese rights to the product. The dry powder inhaler (DPI) was being developed for the treatment of breakthrough… Read more . . .
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According to news reports, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raided the San Diego, California headquarters of vaccine developer NexBio and removed papers. FBI agent Darrell Foxworth is quoted as saying that the… Read more . . .
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Two days after announcing that it had licensed VR315 in the US to an undisclosed pharmaceutical company, Vectura announced that Sandoz has licensed the product in the rest of the world. Sandoz already has an… Read more . . .
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Finnish pharmaceutical company Orion Corporation will co-market combination products delivered by its Easyhaler dry powder inhaler with Nycomed. The agreement covers major European countries, the Middle East, and North Africa. Orion will manufacture the products… Read more . . .
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University of Michigan spin-off NanoBio has licensed a novel respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH developed the antigen using proprietary technology. No approved vaccine for RSV currently exists;… Read more . . .
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September 15-September 18: DDL New Researcher Network Summer Event, London, UK
September 16-September 17: IPAC-RS 2026 Nasal Innovation Forum, Jersey City, NJ, USA
September 24-September 25: Inhaled & Nasal Biologics | DNA Forum, Cambridge, UK
October 14-October 15: Advancing Bioequivalence Frameworks for Inhalation and Nasal Drug Products: Optimizing In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Silico Methods, Rockville, MD, USA
October 19-October 20: MVIC Autumn Training 2026, Lund, Sweden