Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it entered a research deal with Medtronic to develop a new method to treat Parkinson's disease using an implantable drug delivery system. The companies will utilise Eli Lilly's modified form of glial cell derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) with Medtronic's implantable drug infusion system technology to target a specific area of the brain. "We believe we have biosynthetically engineered this GDNF variant to overcome technical hurdles of previous research…and are hopeful that early testing of our biologic with Medtronic's device will provide the necessary data to safely advance into human studies," commented Michael Hutton, chief scientific officer of Eli Lilly's neurodegeneration team.
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Lilly, Medtronic developing Parkinson's treatment - (The Indianapolis Star)
Medtronic, Lilly to Collaborate on Parkinson's - (The Wall Street Journal)
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