Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) and Braeburn Pharmaceuticals said today that they plan to end a 2012 licensing agreement that gave Braeburn exclusive rights to commercialize Probuphine in the U.S. and Canada. Probuphine, which was developed using Titan’s ProNeura continuous drug-delivery tech, is an implant that can be placed in a patient’s upper arm in an outpatient office […]
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Shares in Titan Pharmaceuticals fall after Q3 miss
Shares in Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) fell today after the company missed expectations on Wall Street with its third quarter results. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company posted a net loss of -$4.2 million on sales of $40,000 for the 3 months ended Sept. 30, for bottom-line loss of -60% on sales growth of 53.8% compared with the […]
Titan Pharmaceuticals treats first Parkinson’s patient with subdermal implant
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) has treated the first patient in a Phase I/II trial of its ropinirole implant designed to treat the signs and symptoms of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. Ropinirole is a dopamine agonist traditionally given orally to patients with Parkinson’s disease or restless leg syndrome. Titan’s ropinirole implant uses the company’s ProNeura drug delivery tech to […]
Titan, Opiant partner to develop subcutaneous implant for opioid use disorder
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) and Opiant Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:OPNT) announced this week that the companies are partnering to develop a subcutaneous implant to deliver an opioid antagonist. The pair said they plan to conduct a feasibility assessment of such an implant using Titan’s ProNeura sustained release technology. The goal of their collaboration is to devise a way to […]
Titan wins FDA nod to study Parkinson’s implant
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) said today that the FDA cleared the investigational new drug application for its ropinirole implant designed to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The Phase I/II trial, which is slated to enroll 20 patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, will transition patients taking oral ropinirole to Titan’s ropinirole implant for three months of treatment, […]
Titan Pharmaceuticals misses estimates in Q2
Shares in Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) fell yesterday after the pharmaceutical company missed expectations on Wall Street with its second quarter results. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company posted a net loss of -$3.5 million on sales of $77,000 for the 3 months ended June 30. In the same period last year, Titan posted profits of $11.9 million […]
Titan Pharmaceuticals lands $10m debt facility
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) said last week that it inked a $10 million venture loan and security deal with Horizon Technology Finance Corp. The first $7 million tranche was triggered after the groups inked a deal, Titan reported, and a second option of $3 million is available to the California-based company until March 31, 2018, contingent upon […]
Titan Pharmaceuticals partners for long-acting antimalarial implant
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) this month revealed a collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to evaluate the use of its ProNeura drug-delivery technology for the long-term prevention of malaria. The company is already working to develop its implant for an array of applications. Titan president & CEO Sunil Bhonsle told Drug Delivery Business News that this […]
FDA asks Titan for more info before clinical trial of ropinirole implant
Titan Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:TTNP) said today that the FDA put a hold on the clinical trial of its ropinirole implant and told the company to submit more information to the federal watchdog. After it completed an initial review of the implant’s Investigational New Drug application, the FDA asked Titan for final release test data on its ropinirole […]
Titan Pharmaceutical’s match-sized implant fights back against opioid addiction
The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. is harrowing – 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Companies are searching for innovative ways to deliver opioid maintenance treatment to patients that are hoping to get clean. Buprenorphine is a compound used for medication-assisted treatment, traditionally administered […]
