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Takeda, Amylin End Pact

Commercial prospects sink obesity combo

By: Gil Roth

President, Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals have mutually terminated their worldwide agreement to co-develop and commercialize compounds for obesity. The pact began in October 2009, . The companies announced in August 2011 their decision to discontinue the development of pramlintide/metreleptin, an investigational combination therapy for the treatment of obesity. That joint decision was based on a commercial reassessment of the pramlintide/metreleptin program, which had been in Phase I...

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