RE:On GLP-1 agonists US Senate passes anti-patent thicket billBy example - July 12, 2024 - "Pfizer inadvertently gave a leg up to two obesity biotechs yesterday with the announcement that an extended-release formulation of oral med danuglipron will be advanced into dose optimization studies. The New York-based Big Pharma is hoping to recover from earlier data that showed a twice-daily formulation of oral danuglipron led to modest weight loss with a high level of adverse events and patient discontinuations.
Now, the company is looking to advance the med as a once-daily, modified-release formulation on the strength of “encouraging pharmacokinetic data.”
The irony is that in December 2023, Raymond James steted: “The annals of biotech are of course littered with examples of drugs that failed as [twice a day] formulations (see here), and pivoted to a [once a day] formulation with great success in hyper competitive market segments (/end sarcasm).”
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizers-obesity-pill-news-leaves-analysts-wanting-biotech-investors-cheering