Sun Seeks Partner For GLP-I Asset, Legal Challenge Clouds Alopecia Drug Launch

Sun’s chief Dilip Shanghvi talks about partnering intent for the firm’s GLP-1 candidate, which he hopes can complete studies in an accelerated timeframe, while legal action in the US has a cast a shadow on launch timelines of the Indian drug maker's alopecia areata treatment.

Sun mulls partnering option for promising GLP-1 candidate • Source: Shutterstock

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., is eying the partnering route as it seeks to advance into the high-profile glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist space, currently witnessing huge excitement as a therapeutic class for obesity.

Sun’s specialty pipeline includes a promising early stage GLP-1 receptor agonist, GL0034(utreglutide), indicated for type 2 diabetes and obesity, which is

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