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GSK’s Diabetes Drug Tanzeum Gains FDA Approval

Employs Novozymes' VELTIS technology for optimized dosing

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

The FDA has approved GlaxoSmithKline’s new type 2 diabetes drug Tanzeum that employs Novozymes’ Veltis technology to achieve an extended half-life requiring once a week administration. The drug has also recently been approved in Europe as the brand Eperzan.   Novozymes’ VELTIS technology represents a series of engineered human albumins that in combination with a drug candidate, offers the potential for control of the therapeutic half-life, which allows for reducing the dosing f...

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