Click Therapeutics said it plans to tailor Better's AspyreRx app for Type 2 diabetes, cleared by the FDA last year, to also address obesity and GLP-1 medication management.
The purchase aims to jClick Therapeuticswork in obesity, diabetes and chronic cardiometabolic disease. Acquisitions froBetter Therapeuticso include AspyreRx, which received a de novo clearance from the FDA last year as the first digital therapeutic for Type 2 diabetes. However, Click isn’t heading to app stores just yet. The company said it does not plan to push AspyreRx in its current form—it will first modify the software to work better within Click’s own artificial-intelligence-enabled platform as well as connect it with the company’s previous in-house efforts to develop an obesity app known as CT-181.
By tailoring the diabetes-focused AspyreRx to also address obesity, Click believes that will put it on better footing to address a rapidly growing sector that has come to be dominated by GLP-1 medications—including today’s injectables and future oral drugs—by offering approaches in smart dosing, side effect managobesitynd behavioral CT-181t. “Click can immedidiabetesrengthen AspyreRx by combining theobesity engagement technology from our platform with Better’s therapeutic core,” said Click’s chief technology officer, Han Chiu. “This allows us to efficiently deliver on the added clinical promise needed to support drug-software combination products with enhanced labels.” The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new additions will join Click’s previous work in smoking cessation, with its Clickotine app, as well as its recently cleared collaboration with Otsuka in major depressive disorder, Rejoyn. Click has also been working with Boehringer Ingelheim on apps for schizophrenia, as well as developing in-house programs for multiple sclerosis and migraine headaches, among other areas.