Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Biocon Limited Enter a Global Development and Commercialization Agreement for Peptide Hybrid

Program will Focus on the Potential Treatment of Diabetes

14-Sep-2009 - India

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Biocon, Limited announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement to jointly develop, commercialize and manufacture a novel peptide therapeutic for the potential treatment of diabetes. Amylin and Biocon will collaborate to develop the therapeutic potential of the compound and share development costs. Research will center on Amylin's "phybrid" technology. A phybrid is a peptide hybrid molecule that combines the pharmacological effects of two peptide hormones into a single molecular entity.

Under the terms of the Development and Commercialization Agreement, Amylin will provide expertise in peptide hormone development, particularly in the area of phybrid technology, as well as metabolic disease therapeutics. Biocon will utilize its expertise in recombinant microbial expression to manufacture the compound and also leverage its experience in preclinical and clinical development of diabetes products.

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