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Despite FDA Setback, KemPharm Advancing Prodrug Pipeline
Category: Business
Duration: 00:19:22
Publish Date: 2017-01-12 11:35:50
Description: Last year, KemPharm was on its way to winning an FDA approval for its opioid Apadaz designed to deter users from snorting, injecting, or otherwise abusing it. But the regulatory agency stymied the company’s efforts when it declined to label it as an abuse-deterrent opioid. Apadaz is a prodrug that is converted to its active form through an enzyme present in the intestinal tract that releases the hydrocodone in it. The decision sent shares in KemPharm tumbling. Now, as the company works to resolve regulatory issues around Apadaz, it’s moving forward with the rest of its prodrug pipeline. We spoke to KemPharm CEO Travis Mickle about abuse-deterrence, the ongoing discussion with the FDA, the company’s prodrug pipeline.
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