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A run-up of new drug approvals in the last two weeks of the year pushed the FDA's record to 39 new drug sanctions in 2012, almost twice the number approved just two years ago and the highest figure the agency has seen since 1996, when 53 new molecular entities crossed the finish line.
Regulatory OKs represent a crucial industry metric, underscoring whether an industry that spends tens of billions of dollars on R&D while racking up a terrible productivity rate over more than a decade can reform itself in time to counter the loss of tens of billions of dollars in revenue from old products now facing generic competition. Two years of encouraging improvement, though, aren't enough to satisfy some longtime industry observers who want to see whether these new drugs can live up to their peak sales estimates.
"The patent exposure will be less going forward, but where there is still a little bit of uncertainty is how much better the pipelines have become and how strong the recently approved products are," Damien Conover, Morningstar's director of pharmaceutical research, tells Reuters' Ben Hirschler.
Two big trends leap out of the numbers. One-third of these new drugs approved in the last 12 months are for cancer, underscoring the big investment being made in oncology as an improved understanding of the genetics involved in the disease is opening the door to new treatments--some of which are coming down the pipeline at a relatively rapid pace.
Another big trend: New drugs for rare diseases are also making their debut, underscoring the industry's eagerness to advance high-priced therapies for small patient populations as they follow a playbook written by pioneers like Genzyme.
The approvals we're seeing now are the result of strategic shifts at Big Pharma as well as biotech dating back 5FDA years or more, with some smaller companies like Ariad and Ironwood going all the way through to an approval without giving up primary marketing rights. And there could be some real momentum building up as developers start making smarter choices.
"The sheer number I think support the correctness in some of the strategy shift of the pharmaceutical companies over the last number of years," Rick Edmunds, a senior partner at Booz & Co., tells Bloomberg. The rate "implies pharma growth potential to 2015 and beyond."
- here's the Reuters story
- read the Bloomberg report
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By John Carroll and Ryan McBride
The push to a record rate of new drug approvals required a big fourth-quarter effort on the part of the FDA. In December the agency handed out 8 new drug OKs, and six of them came in the waning days of 2012, after FierceBiotech had begun its official publishing break for the holidays. Our readers who regularly check our website know that we kept up with the news online. But for everyone else, here's a roundup of the regulatory actions you may have missed:
  • On the last day of 2012 the FDA OK'd Salix Pharmaceuticals' crofelemer for use in treating HIV-related diarrhea. The drug, to be marketed as Fulyzaq, is derived from the red sap of the Croton lechleri plant, making this the second botanical drug ever approved by the agency. Analysts don't expect the drug to be a big earner. A Bloomberg report in September noted that the average sales estimate for 2014 was only $33 million. But the agency notes that HIV/AIDS patients often suffer from diarrhea, forcing them to switch their treatments, making this a significant advance for that patient population. And Salix ($SLXP) has counted on Fulyzaq to broaden its product line. Story
  • Another drug to barely make the end-of-year deadline was Johnson & Johnson's bedaquiline, the first new treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in four decades. The approval was based on midstage data after J&J ($JNJ) made its case that the urgent need for a new TB therapy warranted an OK ahead of Phase III results. J&J will sell the drug as Sirturo, part of a combination therapy that will now be available as a last-ditch treatment for patients who have failed standard remedies. The FDA handed out the accelerated approval based on rules that allow the agency to green-light a therapy on efficacy data based on a surrogate endpoint. Report
  • The big approval in this last wave of regulatory nods was reserved for Eliquis, the clot buster from Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY) and Pfizer ($PFE), which garnered the agency's stamp for use in certain patients with atrial fibrillation. Bristol and Pfizer--which have suffered from generic competition to the big-selling meds Plavix and Lipitor, respectively--have now won approval for the most lucrative use of the drug in the world's top healthcare market. The FDA sanctioned the bloodthinner for reducing risk of stroke and blood clots in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, saying that the drug shouldn't be used in patients with artificial heart valves or defective heart valves. Report
  • Alexza Pharmaceuticals ($ALXA) won an early Christmas present when the FDA handed out a long-sought approval for an antipsychotic drug called Adasuve. Wasting no time, the company plans to push the inhaled med onto the U.S. market early in the first quarter of 2013. U.S. regulators stamped an approval of Alexza's inhaled version of the antipsychotic drug loxapine for adults struck with agitation linked to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The approval comes with warnings about serious adverse events such as potentially lethal bronchospasms and increased risk of death in elders with dementia-related psychosis. Report
  • The FDA also approved Aegerion's ($AEGR) new drug for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia on Christmas eve, clearing a path to begin commercialization as the biotech comes to a major turning point. Lomitapide will now hit the market as Juxtapid featuring a boxed warning about the distinct threat of liver toxicity. "We are excited that Juxtapid will become a new treatment option for patients with HoFH," said Marc Beer, the CEO at Aegerion. "The approval of our first product also marks an important corporate milestone for Aegerion and reflects our commitment to help patients in need." Story
  • And near the end of the day on Dec. 21 the FDA stamped an approval on NPS Pharmaceuticals' ($NPSP) Gattex for treating patients with short bowel syndrome. The approval sets the stage for the U.S. launch of the company's lead drug. The sanctioning of Gattex isn't a big surprise. FDA advisers unanimously endorsed the drug, which helps patients with the syndrome reduce their dependence on IV feeding, for approval in October. And most of them backed the REMS plan from the company to monitor cancer and other risks associated with the therapy. Article



By John Carroll Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

The biopharma industry rang in the New Year with a big independent player to add to its roster. After 15 months of planning, AbbVie ($ABBV) has split away from Abbott ($ABT), complete with a pipeline of more than 20 mid- and late-stage therapies, $18 billion in revenue and a commercial operation that spans the globe.
AbbVie's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. Its blockbuster drug is Humira, which earns about half of its revenue. Now the number one drug in the world by sales, Humira is expected to earn $10 billion this year, dominating the rheumatoid arthritis market. But the big money train will start to slow in 2016, when Humira loses patent protection and faces less-expensive knockoffs. The market for follow-on therapies isn't like the traditional generic market--which can blast revenue from traditional small molecule drugs in a matter of weeks--but AbbVie will have to look to its R&D group to provide new products for growth.
That's why in today's press release AbbVie is heralding its pipeline work. AbbVie has been a busy dealmaker in the past year, signing some big pacts with biotech companies. It's made headlines with a compelling hepatitis C program and is working in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, spondyloarthropathies, multiple myeloma and endometriosis.
Conspicuously missing from that list is chronic kidney disease. In the lead-up to the corporate split Abbott committed close to a billion dollars in upfront payments and near-term cash to partner on Reata Pharmaceuticals' bardoxolone and a next-gen portfolio of CKD drugs. But the Phase III program was shuttered in October after the drug was linked to a higher rate of death. Since then, virtually nothing has been said about it.
- here's the press release
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BGI-Shenzhen nailed down U.S. government approval for its controversial buyout of Complete Genomics ($GNOM), which would expand the Chinese sequencing powerhouse's technological capabilities in the competitive business of decoding DNA for medicine and agriculture. The company revealed the win over the weekend.
This might be an unwelcome development for Illumina ($ILMN), the largest provider of DNA sequencers in the world. Illumina has hotly contested BGI's purchase of financially strapped Complete, offered to marginally top BGI's bid for its Mountain View, CA, competitor, and has hired lobbyists to drum up opposition to the BGI deal on Capitol Hill, as The New York Times reported.
As the Times' Andrew Pollack points out, Illumina has stoked concerns about potential--and what some interpret as unlikely--threats to U.S. national security as a result of the Chinese firm's takeover of Complete. And its fight against the deal strikes nationalistic tones, including keeping sequencing secrets in U.S. hands, which clash with the international spirit of the Human Genome Project to map the code of life.
BGI, formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute, was an active player in the Human Genome Project. It's expanded in the U.S. and Europe with new offices and collaborations with Western pharma companies, top hospitals and academics. Yet the firm primarily acts as a service provider, relying on machines from Illumina and others to sequence genomes for customers.
A key to the Complete Genomics deal is that BGI would acquire technology for sequencing genomes, which could make the company less dependent on other companies for sequencing tech.
With the recent clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the acquisition still needs an OK from the Federal Trade Commission, Pollack reported.
- here's the release
- see the Times' article
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By Ryan McBride Comment | Forward | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

George Scangos, CEO of Biogen Idec
The foibles of the country's real estate market are largely absent in biotech's boomtown. Like pioneers rushing for gold, biotech and pharma outfits have swept into Cambridge, MA, and dismissed the hefty property costs in search of talent and technology that could lead to lucrative new drugs.
In a New York Times article, Biogen Idec ($BIIB) CEO George Scangos serves as a leading mover in the industry's rush to Cambridge. After Scangos took the top job at Biogen in 2010, he quickly jettisoned his predecessor's plan of keeping business folks and executives a half-hour outside Boston in Weston, MA, while R&D stayed in Cambridge. And now Biogen is planning to ditch its HQ in sleepy Weston for a new $500 million facility under construction in the biotech hotbed of Cambridge.
Of course, Scangos has plenty of company. As the Times reports, the biotech industry's growth is the leading factor in the whopping 3.4 million square feet of space at various stages of construction or planning in the city that sits across the Charles River from Boston.
Pfizer ($PFE) has been moving research and hundreds of employees to Cambridge as it exits facilities in Groton, CT, Sandwich, U.K., and elsewhere. Novartis ($NVS), which houses its global R&D operation in Cambridge, is erecting two major buildings there at a cost of $600 million. The list goes on.
In general the burbs outside Boston offer cheaper digs than the city. Yet biopharma isn't the insurance industry. It needs copious inventions to thrive. And the cost of real estate in Cambridge--which offers a smorgasbord of biotech talent and innovations--has become another cost of doing business for a bevy of biotech and pharma outfits.
"It's an amazing place to be," Scangos told the Times. "The intellectual firepower that is in Cambridge, between Harvard and MIT and the number of companies, is quite remarkable."
- check out the Times article
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