Medgenics Extends Collaboration with Baxter on Development of Factor VIII Biopump
July 06 2011 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Medgenics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: MDGN and AIM: MEDU, MEDG)
announces an extension of its agreement with Baxter Healthcare
Corporation for the joint development of the Factor VIII
Biopump.
Under the extension, confirmatory studies will be conducted
implanting Factor VIII Biopumps in mice. Baxter will bear the costs
of these studies including the preparation and delivery of the
necessary Biopumps. During the extended agreement, which will
expire by September 30, 2011, Baxter has the opportunity, to
exercise an exclusive option for 6 months to negotiate with
Medgenics an agreement for commercialization of the Biopump Factor
VIII technology.
“During recent months Medgenics has made considerable progress
with the performance of our Biopump technology, and we are
delighted to be moving forward with our collaboration with Baxter,
the global leader in hemophilia treatments,” stated Andrew L.
Pearlman, Ph.D., President and CEO of Medgenics. “We look forward
to completing these confirmatory studies and expect that they will
validate the ability of our Biopump to produce clinically relevant
levels of Factor VIII.”
About Medgenics
Medgenics is developing and commercializing Biopump, a
proprietary tissue-based platform technology for the sustained
production and delivery of therapeutic proteins using the patient’s
own skin biopsy for the treatment of a range of chronic diseases
including anemia, hepatitis C and hemophilia. Medgenics believes
this approach has multiple benefits compared with current
treatments, which include regular and costly injections of
therapeutic proteins.
Medgenics has three long-acting protein therapy products in
development based on this technology:
- EPODURE (now completing a Phase I/II
dose-ranging trial) to produce and deliver erythropoietin for many
months from a single administration, has demonstrated elevation and
stabilization of hemoglobin levels in anemic patients for 6 to more
than 24 months;
- INFRADURE (to commence a Phase I/II
trial in Israel in 2011) to produce a sustained therapeutic dose of
interferon-alpha for use in the treatment of hepatitis C;
- HEMODURE is a sustained Factor VIII
therapy for the prophylactic treatment of hemophilia, now in
development.
Medgenics intends to develop its innovative products and bring
them to market via strategic partnerships with major pharmaceutical
and/or medical device companies. Since October 2009, HEMODURE has
been the focus of cooperation between Medgenics and a major
healthcare company, a market leader in hemophilia.
In addition to treatments for anemia, hepatitis C and
hemophilia, Medgenics plans to develop and/or out-license a
pipeline of future Biopump products targeting the large and rapidly
growing global protein therapy market, which is forecast to reach
$132 billion in 2013. Other potential applications for Biopumps
include multiple sclerosis, arthritis, pediatric growth hormone
deficiency, obesity and diabetes.
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