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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 4, 2008
ALKERMES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
PENNSYLVANIA (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | 1-14131 (Commission File Number) | 23-2472830 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
88 Sidney Street Cambridge, Massachusetts (Address of principal executive offices) | 02139 (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(617) 494-0171
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (seeGeneral Instruction A.2. below):
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Item 8.01 Other Events | ||||||||
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Item 8.01 Other Events
Alkermes, Inc. is working with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Amylin, to develop exenatide once weekly, a long-acting formulation of exenatide. Amylin submitted data from itsin vitro in vivo correlation studies to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to demonstrate comparability between exenatide once weekly manufactured by Alkermes in its facility and used in previous clinical studies and exenatide once weekly manufactured on a commercial scale in Amylin’s Ohio facility. Amylin has recently received feedback from the FDA that such data have not met FDA requirements to demonstrate comparability. Amylin is in active discussions with the FDA regarding options to enable a New Drug Application, or NDA, submission by the end of the first half of 2009. If Amylin is required to initiate a new clinical study, the timing of the NDA submission would depend on the parameters of the new study, and the submission could be delayed beyond the previously stated filing timeline of by the end of the first half of 2009.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
ALKERMES, INC. | ||||
Date: November 4, 2008 | By: | /s/ James M. Frates | ||
James M. Frates | ||||
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | ||||