Business
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According to Boston-based CILA Therapeutics, the company has been awarded an SBIR Phase 1 grant worth almost $380,000 through the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) for pre-clinical development of the company’s CIL-Key… Read more . . .
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Firebrick Pharma announced that the European Patent Office has accepted the company’s patent application covering the use of povidone-iodine nasal sprays, including Firebrick’s Nasodine, for the reduction of viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in the nose… Read more . . .
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AstraZeneca has announced the launch of its FluMist Home service for delivery of the FluMist intranasal influenza vaccine in the US for the 2025-26 flu season. In September 2024, the nasal vaccine was approved by the… Read more . . .
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MannKind Corporation announced a strategic financing agreement with Blackstone that will provide the company with a $75 million loan initially, with a total potential of up to $500 million. MannKind said that the agreement was made in… Read more . . .
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Alveolus Bio, which is developing inhaled therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases, announced that Indian API manufacturer and CDMO Shilpa Medicare Limited has led a strategic financing round that will fund Phase 2 development… Read more . . .
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GSK has announced that it will pay $500 million to Hengrui Pharma up front for the rights to Hengrui’s HRS-9821, an inhaled dry powder PDE3/4 inhibitor for the treatment of COPD, plus options to license… Read more . . .
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Avalyn Pharma announced that it has closed a $100 million Series D financing, with proceeds intended to support continued development of its inhaled drugs for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, including AP01 pirfenidone, AP02 nintedanib,… Read more . . .
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Oragenics, which recently announced that it had raised approximately $16.5 million for Phase 2 development of its OPN-002 neurosteroid nasal powder for the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury, says that Sterling Pharma Services will… Read more . . .
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Merck has announced that it will acquire Ohtuvarye inhaled ensifentrine maker Verona Pharma for a total of approximately $10 billion. Ohtuvarye, which is delivered via jet nebulizer, was approved by the FDA in June 2024… Read more . . .
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Oragenics announced that it has raised approximately $16.5 million in a Series H funding round, with proceeds going toward repayment of a $3 million bridge loan and continued development of the company’s OPN-002 neurosteroid nasal… Read more . . .
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July 13-July 16: 2026 ISAM Congress, Taipei, Taiwan
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