Palatin Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in developing medicines based on molecules that modulate the activity of the melanocortin receptor system. The Company’s product candidates are targeted, receptor-specific therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs and commercial potential. Its new product development activities focus primarily on MC1r agonists, with the potential to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as dry eye disease, which is also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca, uveitis, diabetic retinopathy, and inflammatory bowel disease. It is also developing peptides that are active at more than one melanocortin receptor, and MC4r peptide and small molecule agonists with potential utility in obesity and metabolic-related disorders, including rare disease and orphan indications. Its product candidates include PL9643 for dry eye disease and PL8177 for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.