Titan Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Initial Results of Probuphine Relaunch
January 30, 2019
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Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provided an update on the U.S. commercial relaunch of Probuphine (buprenorphine) implant, its unique six-month treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Titan has successfully completed the program's planned transition from Braeburn Pharmaceuticals. Important commercialization accomplishments include the recruitment and onboarding of highly qualified commercial and medical affairs personnel for all targeted geographies; the engagement of a leading public relations agency for the re-branding of Probuphine; and the retention of a well-known government relations firm to plan and execute a new lobbying strategy for the product. Titan also reengaged with health care providers who had previously treated patients with Probuphine, providing retraining and medical liaison assistance where needed and creating an integrated sales strategy to support them and their office staff. These accomplishments and other activities have contributed to a double-digit increase in total product shipments in the period following Titan's assumption of responsibility for Probuphine sales in mid-June 2018. Based on preliminary information, total shipments of Probuphine during the rest of the year increased sequentially by over 20%. Titan expects to provide more details in its fourth quarter and full-year 2018 financial results, which it expects to release in late March 2019.
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing therapeutics utilizing the proprietary long-term drug delivery platform, ProNeura, for the treatment of select chronic diseases. ProNeura offers continuous drug delivery and consists of a small, semi-rigid, flexible implant made from a mixture of ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) and a drug substance. The resulting product is a solid matrix implant that is placed subdermally, normally in the inside part of the upper arm, in a brief procedure using a local anesthetic and is removed in a similar manner at the end of the treatment period. Its product pipeline includes Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonist (TP-2021) Implant, which is used for the treatment of moderate-to-severe chronic pruritus. Its product development programs are in non-clinical stages of development.