The 71st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 4-10, 2019.
The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was held in Chicago, IL from May 31st through June 4th, 2019. This year’s conference was highly varied, with key data presented for drugs in numerous different classes and indications.
Acquisitions and licensing are core to pharma and big biotech growth as pipelines thin and assets lose patent protection. Yet a look back at prior years’ eye-popping deal sums reveals many billions of dollars of write-offs and lost value. Key assets failed or disappointed in at least half of 2014’s largest acquisitions and licensing deals. Failure is part of the drug discovery landscape, but some lessons can be learned from dud deals.
Faced with pressure from stakeholders – particularly patients – governments, regulators, and some countries have introduced new options and/or processes to speed up access to medicines. This includes access before marketing authorization, and speeding up the marketing authorization, or less often, the health technology assessment processes.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) 79th Scientific Sessions was held in San Francisco, CA from 7–11 June 2019.
Immuno-oncology continues to draw pharma companies to the deal table.
An analysis of the drug-focused licensing deals (out-licensing and in-licensing) made by Big Pharma companies shows an uptick in partnering from 2014 to 2015, followed by a slight decrease in 2016 that has held steady through 2018. Despite that slight decline, the peer set increased deal volume by roughly 15% between the beginning and the end of the five-year period. Total deal values rose even more, roughly 25%.
The first antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), Mylotarg, reached the market almost two decades ago. Since this time, the ADC field has undergone slow but transformative enhancements, with improvements to technologies and advancements in the pipeline leading to an invigoration of the field. The past couple of years have seen the approvals of three new ADCs: Polivy, Lumoxiti, and Besponsa, increasing the total number of ADCs approved by regulators worldwide to six. These approvals mark the start of a new era in which the ADC field is finally beginning to realize its full potential. With the ADC pipeline swelling to around 250 novel candidates in various stages of preclinical and clinical development, approvals for more ADCs appear firmly on the horizon.
Biosimilars have been available in Europe for over a decade, and have offered the opportunity to vastly reduce the cost of treatment for a large number of biologic agents.
As a supplement to our well-known quarterly Outlook report, Biomedtracker is pleased to present a longer-term look at some key late-stage drugs projected to hit the market in 2021.
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This strategy report focuses on Big Pharma Licensing Trends with company analyses, case studies, therapy area analysis, and deal economics.
Total sales from the mid pharma peer set amounted to $69.4bn in 2011; by the end of 2012, this figure rose by 1.6% to $71.0bn. During 2012 the peer set constituents exhibited varying degrees of sales growth.
In order to continually and effectively compete with its peers, as well as with smaller specialty pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies, the top 20 global pharmaceutical peer set turns to deal-making as a means to balance out its internally developed portfolio, and to take advantage of the broader capabilities of partners or takeover targets.
Health technology assessments (HTAs) have become an integral part of procedures employed to inform new drug coverage and pricing decisions across Europe. Methodological approaches to HTA vary, however, while disparities are also apparent in the pertise and financial resources to conduct multidisciplinary assessments, and in the relative weight accorded to recommendations issued by national (or regional) HTA agencies (ICOM, 2017)
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the market access climate in emerging pharmaceutical markets. Focusing in particular on the E7 countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey), it charts recent developments, assesses their potential impact on market access, and pinpoints areas in which further change is anticipated.
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