Meda acquires world-wide rights to Onsolis

Meda acquires world-wide rights to Onsolis   

Meda has acquired world-wide rights to the drug Onsolis from Meda's
collaboration partner BioDelivery Sciences International (BDSI). The product -
currently in registration phase - has been documented for treatment of
breakthrough cancer pain in opioid tolerant patients. 

Meda already holds exclusive rights to Onsolis in the U.S., EU, Canada and
Mexico from previous agreements with BDSI. The new agreement grants Meda the
rights outside these countries and access to interesting markets such as Russia,
Japan, South East Asia and Australia. A one time cash payment of 3 MUSD has been
made to BDSI for these rights and no further milestone payments are due.
”With Onsolis, we strengthen our pain product portfolio on several important
markets. The product is unique, patented and fills an important medical need”,
said Anders Lönner, Meda's CEO.

BDSI and Meda have also reached agreement of a 3 MUSD advance payment on the FDA
approval milestone which is anticipated during Q2, 2009. Consequently, that
milestone has been reduced from 30 MUSD to about 27 MUSD. 


For more information contact:

Anders Larnholt, VP Investor Relations	tel. +46 709 458 878

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