News : NTDDS

Diamyd Medical AB has entered into an agreement for the sale of the U.S. subsidiary, Diamyd, Inc., involved in drug development primarily relating to the NTDDS platform with applications in pain and neuropathy among others. The buyer, Periphagen Holdings, Inc., is owned by members of the management of Diamyd, Inc. The agreement is subject to approval of an Extraordinary General Meeting of Diamyd Medical. By reason...

Diamyd Medical AB reports that a Phase II study evaluating the Company’s drug candidate NP2 Enkephalin did not meet its primary objective of reducing pain in subjects with severe intractable cancer pain. The treatment was however well tolerated, confirming the safety of the Company’s NTDDS technology.
The purpose of the randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled Phase II study is to evaluate the effect of...

The last study participant has been recruited to Diamyd Medical’s Phase II study in which cancer pain is treated with the drug candidate NP2 Enkephalin. The study is thus fully enrolled and results are expected to be reported in five to seven weeks.
The purpose of the Phase II study is to evaluate NP2 Enkephalin for the treatment of severe and chronic cancer pain. It is the first sizeable and placebo-controlled...

Diamyd Medical AB with collaborators has received a three million dollar grant from the US National Institutes of Health to develop the Company’s patented Nerve Targeting Drug Delivery System (NTDDS) for prevention of Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. The grant allows Diamyd to expand the NTDDS technology to also target neuropathy, in addition to the Company’s development portfolio for the treatment of...

Diamyd Medical AB is concentrating its resources on the Company’s drug candidates for the treatment of pain and diseases of the nervous system. The termination of the Phase III program with the diabetes therapy Diamyd® means significantly lower costs for the Company which creates strategic leeway.
The primary development focus of Diamyd Medical is shifted from the diabetes therapy Diamyd® to the Company’s...

Substantial and sustained reduction in pain scores were reported in the middle and high dose cohorts of Diamyd Medical’s Phase I, open-label, dose escalation trial investigating NP2 Enkephalin as a potential therapy for chronic pain. No treatment related Serious Adverse Events have been observed in the study to date.
The clinical trial report includes data from the four week observation period following one...

To date no drug related Serious Adverse Events have been reported by any patient included in Diamyd's Phase I clinical trial investigating NP2 as a potential therapy for chronic pain. Based upon the Phase I findings to date, the company is planning a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled Phase II clinical trial with NP2 in the United States.
"The Phase I trial is validating the safety of...

Diamyd Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diamyd Medical, Stockholm Sweden, announces today that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $1.84 million grant to support the development of Diamyd’s Nerve Targeting Drug Delivery System (NTDDS) for Diabetic Neuropathic Pain.
The two-year grant largely funds the advancement of NTDDS with Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase...

Diamyd Medical announces today that Elisabeth Lindner, President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, has been invited to speak at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference in New York on February 9. The presentation will take place at 2.45 pm at the Waldorf Astoria.
Diamyd Medical develops pharmaceuticals for treatment of autoimmune diabetes. The worldwide cost for treatment of diabetes and its complications...