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Market News and Trends

During January 2006, PharmaDeals Agreements recorded 20 deals that related to drug delivery. The majority of the deals involved transactions between start-up/emerging companies and focused upon licensing, rights and co-development agreements. Three deals involved global companies, including MedPharm's licensing evaluation agreement with an undisclosed international pharmaceutical company for its MedSpray™ technology. Other deals included Inovio Biomedical's agreement with Swedish-based Tripep to deliver a therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis C virus and Supernus Pharmaceuticals' acquisition of Shire Laboratories' product formulation and development assets. Read more...

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Liposome Solutions for Poorly Soluble Drugs
Thousands of new compounds can be synthesised each year thanks to developments in combinatorial chemistry and high iv throughput screening. This has led to dramatic acceleration in drug discovery output. However, this has not come without fresh problems, with many new lead compounds now reflecting the properties of the screening library to a greater extent. In this article, Azal Ur-Rahman Mohammed and Yvonne Perrie, of the Medicines Research Unit, Aston University, Birmingham, discuss the application of liposomes as drug delivery systems and their potential as novel solutions for poor solubility. Read more...

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Featured Opportunity

Novel Biomedical Polymer Technology
Administrative Route - Ophthalmic, Transdermal, Subcutaneous, Topical
Indication - Improve the acceptance of implants and medical devices; particularly designed for optical lenses and drug delivery
Licence code LO-0106-03

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