Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces Confirmation of Meeting With FDA Regarding Probuphine

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - September 26, 2013) -

Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: TTNP) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the request for a meeting to discuss Probuphine®. The meeting is scheduled for November 19, 2013. The FDA has designated this as a Type C meeting and has requested the submission of briefing materials by October 7, 2013.

The goal for this meeting is to understand more fully the issues raised in the April 2013 Complete Response Letter (CRL) to the New Drug Application (NDA) for Probuphine for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence in adults, review and discuss the available data from the Probuphine studies conducted to date and gain further clarity regarding the regulatory path forward for Probuphine. Following the meeting, written minutes will be distributed by the FDA and Titan will then provide an update on the meeting and the regulatory path forward for Probuphine.

About Opioid Dependence
According to recent estimates, there are 2.2 million people with opioid dependence in the U.S. Approximately 20 percent of this population is addicted to illicit opioids, such as heroin, and the other 80 percent to prescription opioids, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone, hydromorphone and codeine. Before the year 2000, medication-assisted therapies for opioid dependence had been sanctioned to a limited number of facilities in the U.S. The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) allowed medical office-based treatment of opioid dependence and greatly expanded patient access to medication-assisted treatments. As a result, an estimated 1.2 million people in the U.S. sought treatment for opioid dependence in 2011.

About Probuphine
Probuphine is an investigational subdermal implant designed to deliver continuous, around the clock blood levels of buprenorphine for six months following a single treatment, and to simplify patient compliance and retention. Buprenorphine, an approved agent for the treatment of opioid dependence, is currently available in the form of daily dosed sublingual tablets and film formulations, with reported 2012 sales of $1.5 billion in the United States.

Probuphine was developed using ProNeura™, Titan’s continuous drug delivery system that consists of a small, solid implant made from a mixture of ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) and a drug substance. The resulting construct is a solid matrix that is placed subdermally, normally in the upper arm in a simple office procedure, and removed in a similar manner at the end of the treatment period. The drug substance is released slowly and continuously through the process of dissolution.

The efficacy and safety of Probuphine has been studied in several clinical trials, including a 163-patient, placebo-controlled study over a 24-week period (published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)), and a confirmatory study of 287 patients (published in the journal Addiction).

About Titan Pharmaceuticals
For information concerning Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., please visit the company’s website at www.titanpharm.com.

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