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AstraZeneca, MAP End Asthma Alliance

AstraZeneca has terminated its license agreement with MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. related to the company's Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) product candidate.

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

AstraZeneca has terminated its license agreement with MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. related to the company’s Unit Dose Budesonide (UDB) product candidate. All rights to the drug revert to MAP, who plans to suspend development of UDB, which did not meet primary endpoints in a Phase III trial in children 12-months to eight years of age with mild asthma. “Physicians and parents continue to express a need for improved therapies for pediatric asthma that offer faster nebulization times, lo...

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