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ImmuCell is a product-driven company with a focus on
solving problems for the dairy and beef industries worldwide. Our current
and future product line is shown below.
*ImmuCell entered into a product development
and marketing agreement with Pfizer Animal Health, a division of
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), for Mast Out®, a Nisin-based treatment
for mastitis in lactating dairy cows. The transaction entails
ImmuCell receiving an up front payment of $1,500,000 from Pfizer
as well as contingent milestone payments and royalties on sales.
ImmuCell granted Pfizer a worldwide, exclusive, long-term
license to sell the product. Pfizer will be responsible for
clinical, regulatory and commercial manufacturing development.
ImmuCell will supply product for efficacy trials that are
expected to begin in the first half of 2005. In January 2004,
ImmuCell announced statistically significant cure rates in an
experimental field trial of Mast Out® involving 139 cows with
subclinical mastitis. FDA-approved mastitis treatments currently
on the market have the disadvantage of requiring that milk from
treated cows be discarded for a period during and after
treatment. Mast Out® has the potential to earn regulatory
approval for the treatment of mastitis without this discard
requirement.
ImmuCell will continue to make and sell Wipe Out® Dairy Wipes, a topical Nisin-based
product used to prepare the cow’s teat area prior to milking. ImmuCell
also plans to continue investigating other potential Nisin-containing products
to the proof-of-concept stage for evaluation of their global market potential by
Pfizer or others. Pfizer has an option to negotiate rights to any such animal
health product with an intramammary application.
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