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Insys Therapeutics

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Founded
1998
Patents
6
Clinical Trials
50
Publications
19

Technologies

Antisense Oligonucleotides

Insys Therapeutics is a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes innovative supportive care products. We have two marketed products, Subsys and Dronabinol SG Capsule, which leverage our sublingual spray drug delivery technology and dronabinol formulation and manufacturing capabilities, respectively. In March 2012, we launched Subsys, our proprietary sublingual fentanyl spray for breakthrough cancer pain, or BTCP, in opioid-tolerant patients.


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Antisense Oligonucleotides Make Sense

  
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are short (about 12 to 25 nucleotides long), synthetic single strands of DNA or RNA that are complementary to a chosen sequence. They can alter RNA and reduce, restore, or modify protein expression. ASOs interact with proteins on the surface of cells and enter the cytoplasm. Then …