PARIS & LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Ipsen (Paris:IPN) and Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Inspiration) today announced that they have entered into a partnership to create a world leading hemophilia franchise. The partnership is designed to leverage combined expertise and resources to advance a broad portfolio of recombinant proteins, which address all major hemophilia disorders in a unique way by focusing on two significant unmet needs: wider access to treatment with coagulation factors and treatment for inhibitor complications. The two lead product candidates are scheduled to begin Phase III clinical testing in 2010 including Ipsen’s recombinant porcine factor VIII, OBI-1 (for the treatment of patients with acquired hemophilia and hemophilia A who have developed an inhibitory immune reaction to human forms of factor VIII), and Inspiration’s recombinant factor IX product, IB1001 (for the acute and preventative treatment of bleeding in patients with hemophilia B). Combined with Inspiration’s novel proprietary technology and an early-stage pipeline of additional hemophilia factors, this broad and unique portfolio would provide greater access to care and fulfill unmet needs for patients suffering from bleeding disorders.
