Follicum expands patent portfolio: First diabetes patent published and promising experimental data supports new patent application
Lund, Sweden, November 12, 2018. Follicum AB ("Follicum" or "the Company") today announced that the company's diabetes project is progressing according to plan and that the company has submitted a new patent application. Experimental studies show that the company’s new optimized peptides exert a protective and preservative effect on beta cells exposed to high glucose concentrations long-term. The latest patent application covers new aspects discovered during preclinical studies of the peptide class. The results, which are unambiguously positive, show that the new peptide class has the