Arriva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Granted Protein Production Patent

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arriva Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing anti-inflammatory therapies, announced today that it had been granted a patent in the U.S. for methods to produce certain proteins in yeast. Among the proteins whose production is covered by the patent (United States Patent 7,419,801) is recombinant alpha 1-antitrypsin (rAAT), the protein used in Respriva™, the company’s lead product.