Australia grants as the first region Diamyd Medical a broadening of a patent for intralymphatic injection of antigens in autoimmune diabetes

The patent covers intralymphatic injection of beta cell antigens including insulin for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune diabetes. The approval is a division of the patent application previously approved in Australia on intralymphatic injection of GAD, the active component in the diabetes vaccine Diamyd® that Diamyd Medical is developing for type 1 diabetes and Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA).

The granted patent claims include intralymphatic administration of beta cell antigens selected from the group of major autoantigens in type 1 diabetes, among them insulin, proinsulin and preproinsulin. The claims cover the use of the antigens for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune diabetes including type 1 diabetes and LADA.

Intralymphatic administration of GAD to treat and prevent autoimmune diabetes has already been approved in Europe, Japan, Russia, Australia and Israel with additional countries pending. Australia is the first region to approve intralymphatic administration of additional beta cell antigens for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune diabetes.

About Diamyd Medical
Diamyd Medical develops precision medicine therapies for type 1 diabetes. The diabetes vaccine Diamyd® is an antigen-specific immunotherapy for the preservation of endogenous insulin production. Significant results have been shown in a large genetically predefined patient group in a large-scale meta-analysis as well as in the Company’s European Phase IIb trial DIAGNODE-2, where the diabetes vaccine was administered directly into a lymph node in children and young adults with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes. Preparations for a confirmatory Phase III trial are on-going. A vaccine manufacturing facility is being set up in Umeå for the manufacture of recombinant GAD65, the active ingredient in the therapeutic diabetes vaccine Diamyd®. Diamyd Medical also develops the GABA-based investigational drug Remygen® as a therapy for regeneration of endogenous insulin production and to improve hormonal response to hypoglycaemia. An investigator-initiated Remygen® trial in individuals living with type 1 diabetes for more than five years is ongoing at Uppsala University Hospital. Diamyd Medical is one of the major shareholders in the stem cell company NextCell Pharma AB as well as in the artificial intelligence company MainlyAI AB.

Diamyd Medical’s B-share is traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market under the ticker DMYD B. FNCA Sweden AB is the Company’s Certified Adviser; phone: +46 8-528 00 399, e-mail: info@fnca.se

For further information, please contact:
Ulf Hannelius, President and CEO
Phone: +46 736 35 42 41
E-mail: ulf.hannelius@diamyd.com

Diamyd Medical AB (publ)
Box 7349, SE-103 90 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 661 00 26, Fax: +46 8 661 63 68
E-mail:
info@diamyd.com Reg. no.: 556242-3797 Website: https://www.diamyd.com

The information was provided by the contact person above, for publication on December 23, 2021, 08.45 CET.


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