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Altea Therapeutics Announces Development and Commercialization Agreement with Amylin and Lilly for an Investigational Transdermal Exenatide

Published in Medical Device Business Week, April 15th, 2009

Altea Therapeutics announced that it has entered into an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop and commercialize a novel daily transdermal patch delivering sustained levels of exenatide utilizing the Altea Therapeutics proprietary PassPort® Transdermal Delivery System. Altea Therapeutics, supported by Lilly and Amylin, recently completed an initial Phase 1 clinical study of the exenatide transdermal patch in people with type 2 diabetes.

The exenatide transdermal patch is an investigational product designed to be applied once per day to provide sustained levels of exenatide for people with type 2 diabetes. The potential benefits...

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