Aegis Therapeutics Awarded Patent for Octreotide Formulations Suitable for Oral and Metered Nasal Spray Delivery

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - May 21, 2012) - Aegis Therapeutics LLC announced today that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 8,133,863 providing broad protection for pharmaceutical composition of octreotide. The highly stable octreotide formulations incorporate Aegis' Intravail®/ProTek® excipients suitable for all routes of administration including oral, buccal, metered nasal spray, or injection. Intravail® and ProTek® excipients allow for non-invasive delivery with high efficiency. They stabilize, prevent aggregation, and reduce unwanted immunogenicity of protein and peptide therapeutics while avoiding the oxidative damage caused by polysorbate surfactants currently found in many protein injectable drugs.