He also ditched a homegrown drug for migraines when results showed that it offered no advantages over Glaxo's Imitrex.

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The migraine drug, if approved, could compete very well against existing treatments such as Merck's Maxalt and GlaxoSmithKline's Imitrex.

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For its human trials due to begin this summer Alexza has chosen a generic migraine drug that doesn't have the cardiovascular risks associated with Maxalt or Imitrex.

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One of his first major moves, in early 2001, was to woo George Morrow, a marketing guru at GlaxoSmithkline who had helped launch the top-selling migraine drug Imitrex.

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He leafed through the pharmaceutical bible, the Physicians' Desk Reference, and selected 300 drugs to test, culling only those for which fast-onset was a necessity, including medicine for migraines (Imitrex), allergies (Claritin) and depression (Prozac).

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