By
AmyT on
January 3, 2011
Happy New Year, everyone! I’ve been mostly off-line this past week, attempting to enjoy the “break” while cleaning and sorting out our fresh-from-construction home. But even in that daze, I couldn’t help noticing all the fuss about MannKind’s Afrezza, which was supposed to be ruled upon by the FDA on Dec. 29.
The FDA has requested an additional four weeks to make a decision on this new inhalable insulin, after having postponed the decision by…
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Hearsay is that Al Mann, CEO of MannKind Corp., is one of those people who’s either brilliant, crazy, or a combination thereof. Probably the latter. And I guess you’d have to be to keep pushing ahead on developing a powdered inhalable insulin product in the wake of Pfizer’s colossal flop Exubera.
I interviewed Al Mann last November (when their product Afrezza was still spelled with an ‘s’). I thought his claims about this new mealtime…
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By
AmyT on
November 17, 2009
Al Mann, CEO of MannKind Corp., is something of a legend in his own time. He not only founded MiniMed, acquired by Medtronic, but also four other successful medical companies. He’s a billionaire, with his own Biomedical Engineering Institute at the University of Southern California (USC), so we can assume that he’s not just championing the new inhalable insulin product Technosphere (brand name Afresa) as some kind of pipe dream or get-rich-quick scheme.
The guy…
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