AstraZeneca and Ironwood announce linaclotide collaboration for China
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
AstraZeneca and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today an agreement to co-develop and co-commercialise Ironwood’s linaclotide in China. Linaclotide is the first and only guanylate cyclase-C (GC-C) agonist approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, in August, for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC).