PARIS & BASEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Ipsen (Paris:IPN) announced today that Roche and Ipsen’s investigational diabetes drug taspoglutide has been shown to be generally well-tolerated and efficacious for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes, resulting in significant improvements in glucose control and weight loss after only eight weeks of treatment.1,2, Taspoglutide, the first human once weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue originating from Ipsen’s Research, is a compound similar to the natural hormone GLP-1 which has a key role in blood sugar regulation. Based on these promising Phase II results, presented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in San Francisco, U.S., Roche has made the decision to move taspoglutide into Phase III clinical trials with the programme anticipated to start in the second half of 2008.
