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How to Identify Branded Drugs with a Low Likelihood of Generic Entry as Targets for In-Licensing

Drug Patent Watch

Identifying branded drugs with a low likelihood of generic entry has become a crucial strategy for companies looking to expand their product portfolio through in-licensing. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the intricacies of identifying such drugs and leveraging them for successful in-licensing opportunities.

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GSK to pay $300M to license drug it sees as potential lupus treatment

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The licensing deal with China’s Chimagen Biosciences is the latest example of drugmaker interest in exploring the potential of “T cell engagers” in autoimmune disease.

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Armed with new gene therapy tools, a biotech startup promises a better way to target muscle diseases

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Two-year-old Kate Therapeutics is launching publicly with $51 million in funding and a licensing deal with Astellas Pharma for a neuromuscular disease gene therapy.

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Ono pays $280M to license Ionis rare disease drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Ionis’ drug, sapablursen, is currently being tested in a Phase 2 trial in patients with polycythemia vera.

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Gilead agrees to license new HIV drug in low-income countries

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company will permit six generic drugmakers to make and sell lenacapavir in 120 countries that have high incidence of the disease but limited resources.

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Novavax sells Czech plant to Novo; Relay licenses out a cancer drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Elsewhere, Roivant dropped a drug program and Takeda acquired a blood disease therapy. Novo will pay $200 million to gain control of the protein manufacturing factory.

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Treatments for poxviruses -- including those causing mpox and smallpox -- may already exist in licensed drugs

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The drug tecovirimat is currently in use for the treatment of mpox -- the disease caused by monkeypox virus -- that spread worldwide in 2022. Tecovirimat is an anti-poxviral drug, and its use is driving the emergence of drug-resistant variants of the monkeypox virus.

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