Milestones set to mark Furiex's path |
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| By Brian Wilson | |
| Monday, 23 January 2012 05:54 | |
 Furiex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:FURX) is a small drug-development company with a market cap of $160 million and quite a few catalysts lined up.
In fact, the BioMedReports FDA Calendar and Worldwide Regulatory Tracker shows that this stock has as many as six milestone developments occurring in 2012 and several others scheduled throughout the next few years. Currently, Furiex has four separate treatments past their phase III trials looking for FDA approval. The most developed, thus far, is Priligy. Priligy is an erectile disfunction-treating oral tablet marketed by Janssen-Cilag. Furiex is already beginning to generate some revenue from royalty payments. In their 3rd quarter report, the company noted that royalty revenues increased to $1.3 million from a measly $400,000 in Q2 2011. Due to the drug’s struggle to get approved in the United States, Furiex has given the commitment to another company (Janssen) which has taken the full financial responsibility of conducting additional phase III trials. On the bright side, Furiex will still receive milestone payments.
Takeda, in concert with Furiex, is marketing Alogliptin in two other forms where it is combined with a preexisting drug. One is Alogliptin/Actos, which is already approved in Japan and has been submitted alongside pure Alogliptin to the FDA for treatment of type-2 diabetes. Hence, the PDUFA date for this drug is also April 25, 2012. Alogliptin/Metformin is another combination that has been tested. The NDA was submitted as of November 23rd 2011, but since it is a new submission we will not see the response letter until the third quarter of 2012 at the earliest. Due to the importance of Alogliptin to Furiex, the FDA decision for Alogliptin and the mixed Alogliptin/Actos drug on April 25th should be a significant factor in the stock’s price. A look at Furiex' product pipeline shows: Priligy® (dapoxetine) is a drug specifically developed for the on-demand treatment of premature ejaculation (PE); Nesina® (alogliptin) is a member of a new class of drugs for the oral treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D); Nesina® (alogliptin) in combination with Actos® (pioglitazone HCl), a single tablet for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; Nesina®, in combination with Metformin, used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; Fluoroquinolone, used for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections, such as abscesses that occur deep in the skin layers and respiratory infections; Mu Delta Receptor Agonist and Delta Opioid Receptor Antagonist, used for the treatment of diarrheal predominant irritable bowel syndrome (d-IBS); and PPD 10558 for the treatment of dyslipidemia. The company was founded in 1998 as Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc., or PPD and later incorporated in June 2010.
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