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Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

Development program initiated for intranasal formulation of rapid-acting insulin

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, November 18th, 2005

Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc. (NSTK) announces the initiation of a development program for a proprietary intranasal formulation of rapid-acting insulin.

The formulation is being developed using Nastech's formulation science expertise and high-throughput human tissue culture screening process, a proprietary system for developing large molecule therapeutics that are delivered across the nasal mucosa. Nastech's human tissue culture studies have been demonstrated to have a high correlation with in vivo clinical drug bioavailability.

Proteins and peptides such as insulin are typically delivered by injection because they cannot be delivered orally...

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