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Pfizer To Acquire Worldwide Rights to Exubera

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Pfizer has reached an agreement to acquire the Sanofi-Aventis worldwide rights to inhaled human insulin for $1.3 billion. Pfizer intends to market the drug under the trade name Exubera. The two companies were previously in a worldwide alliance to co-develop, co-promote and co-manufacture Exubera. Also, Pfizer will acquire the insulin production facilities located in Frankfurt, Germany, previously jointly owned by the two companies. Exubera is a fast-acting dry powder formulation of human in...

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