Industry News - Biotechnology

Acquisition of a New Natural Bioadhesive Technology Announced

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 17th, 1995

Columbia Laboratories, Inc., Miami, Florida, announced it has acquired worldwide rights to a newly developed, protein based, bioadhesive technology for all applications in women's health care.

The inventor, Professor Jean-Marc Alche of th Faculte de Pharmacie, at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, an authority on bioadhesive delivery systems, has applied this new technology to buccal (cheek), vaginal, nasal and rectally delivered products.

When drugs and hormones are given orally, they are often inactivated after ingestion by the liver; this is known as the first liver pass effect. This new technology facilitates the process of developing...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-07-17)

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