Given the collapse of all the inhaled insulin collaborations, many observers are skeptical that the Novo/Emisphere collaboration to create an oral version of Novo's liraglutide GLP-1 -- the drug-delivery company's biggest deal ever -- will work out any better. GLP-1, however, doesn't have all the baggage of insulin therapy, so there is in fact better logic for an oral pill's success. Still, if the program creates merely an oral version of once-a-day liraglutide, with no clinical advantages over its GLP-1 competitors, it will die just as certainly as did inhaled insulin.
There’s got to be some reward for just not giving up.
Take Michael Goldberg, the former CEO of Emisphere Technologies Inc. Following 10 years of development, Emisphere’s oral insulin rather...
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