Emideltide (DSIP)
Nine amino acids long. Most people know it as DSIP, short for delta sleep-inducing peptide. Emideltide is the formal name the FDA uses. Same substance, two names.
At a glance
- Tier
- F Turned down
- Chain length
- 9 amino acids
- Research area
- Circadian Research
- First described
- 1977
- Sold as
- Research use only
- Approved for people
- No
- A pharmacy may compound it
- No
- Where it comes from
- First isolated from sleeping rabbits
The July 2026 committee vote
Recorded vote of the FDA Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee, 23–24 July 2026. All seven tallies.
Where it stands today
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✓Panel voteDone
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2FDA decidesWaiting
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3Rule writtenNot started
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4Pharmacy may compoundNot started
Nothing has moved for this compound. It sits where it sat before the meeting.
What it is
Nine amino acids long. Most people know it as DSIP, short for delta sleep-inducing peptide. Emideltide is the formal name the FDA uses. Same substance, two names.
It turns up in sleep and body-clock work, going back to the 1970s.
It was the only one of the seven the committee turned down. The vote was 6 for, 7 against, with one member sitting out. One vote in it.
Where to get it
The widest per-product coverage of anything we have checked, and the only seller that publishes a batch purity figure with the lab that produced it.
- ✓Research use only labelling
- ✓Purity published per batch
- ✓Testing lab named in public
- ✓Public certificate library
American-compounded, trading since 2012. The only seller we have checked that names its testing lab in public and puts a certificate on the product page.
- ✓Research use only labelling
- ✓Purity published
- ✓Testing lab named in public
- ✓Certificate on the product page
The widest range of the sellers we have checked, and it publishes purity and outside testing. Entry is behind a researcher verification step.
- ✓Research use only labelling
- ✓Purity published
- ✓Says batches are tested outside
- ✓Returns policy published
Sold for laboratory research only. Not approved for people to take. Listing a seller is not a recommendation to buy or to use anything.