Needle-free monitoring and drug delivery
Echo is developing its Prelude® SkinPrep System as a platform technology to allow for significantly enhanced skin permeation that will enable needle-free, painless drug delivery as well as analyte extraction. Utilizing the patented, core controlled-feedback skin permeation technology found in Prelude, Echo has initially developed its technology to deliver topical 4% lidocaine cream in a fast-acting, enhanced manner and also to analyze glucose levels continuously using the Symphony® tCGM System.
Echo currently has two key strategic partnerships in place, one in the area of drug delivery and the other in analyte extraction:
Echo has granted the Ferndale Pharma Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Eloquest Healthcare Inc. a license to develop, market and sell the Prelude device for enhanced, fast-acting and needle-free delivery of Ferndale's topical 4% lidocaine product in North America and the U.K.
The Ferndale Pharma Group of companies specializes in the development, manufacture, distribution and marketing of various dermatologic products including prescription topical drugs for the treatment of several acute and chronic dermatoses, medical devices that support and maintain wound closures, and an extensive line of proprietary cosmeceutical products.
Echo has granted Handok Pharmaceuticals a license to develop, market and sell the Symphony® tCGM System to continuously monitor glucose levels in diabetics and hospital patients in South Korea.
Handok is the leader in diabetes treatment in Korea. Handok, founded in 1954, is the pharmaceutical company in Korea with the most successful track record of various types of partnerships, focusing on innovative products. It formed a JV with Hoechst in 1965, which lead to the current strategic partnership with Sanofi-Aventis. Handok maintains a world class GMP facility and was the first local Korean company to incorporate clinical research capabilities with medical directors on staff.
