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Daré Bioscience, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative products for women’s health, announced it entered into an agreement to acquire privately-held Microchips Biotech, Inc. Daré entered into the agreement to secure Microchips’ innovative, drug delivery technology, which it intends to evaluate as a programmable contraceptive.
From the press release:
“The technology, which has been validated in a first-in-human clinical study in osteoporosis patients, is designed to store and precisely deliver hundreds of therapeutic doses over months or years in a single implant. The implant is intended to be operated by the patient to deliver medication on demand or on a pre-determined schedule that can be activated or deactivated wirelessly, as required.
The microchip-based implant, originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by renowned researchers Robert Langer, Ph.D. and Michael J. Cima, Ph.D., is protected by 98 patents granted and 19 patent applications pending. Microchips, with the support of the Gates Foundation in the form of approximately $17.9 million in grant funding to date, has been developing an implantable long-acting, reversible contraceptive application of the technology, which, if successful, will provide women with unparalleled control over the management of their fertility, which can be individually timed to meet her family planning goals and objectives. The device is intended to deliver all the benefits of a traditional long-acting, reversible contraceptive product, utilizing the active pharmaceutical ingredient levonorgestrel, to provide precise dosing and extended implant duration with the added flexibility of wirelessly controlling the duration of ovulatory suppression based on individual user needs.”
Daré Bioscience’s website is at darebioscience.com
Microchips’ website is at microchipsbiotech.com