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ARTICLE | Product Development

Ironwood's local notion

How tissue-targeting may add new indications for Ironwood compounds

July 27, 2015 7:00 AM UTC

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. is exploring how tissue-specific distribution can give its products additional activity or different clinical profiles suitable for new indications. The company reported Phase I data last week for IW-1973, a stimulator of soluble guanylate cyclase that was designed to leave the vasculature and enter tissues to treat cardiovascular diseases.

Ironwood also is altering biodistribution to make next-generation versions of constipation drug Linzess linaclotide that will have different clinical profiles depending on where they act within the GI tract...