TR64 ON A DIFFERENT PLANET :-p9 Jun 2021 21:47
TR64,
THIS is what I was referring to in regards to the gsk share price I just thought that this might cost GSK money if ASTRA ZENECA WON ???????
AstraZeneca has filed a suit against GSK in the U.K., demanding a bigger share of sales from the Tesaro cancer med Zejula, The Times reports. If AZ succeeds, the lawsuit could potentially net the company hundreds of millions of pounds, the newspaper reported, citing a source.
Tesaro developed Zejula, a PARP inhibitor, with help from technology licensed from AZ, which sells the rival drug Lynparza. In its suit, AZ accuses GSK of breaching the original Tesaro licensing agreement, which GSK denies, according to the newspaper.
As the first-to-market PARP drug, AZ’s Merck-partnered Lynparza is the clear leader in the field. The drug generated $543 million for AZ in the first quarter of 2021, compared with about $124 million for GSK's Tesaro.
Last year, Lynparza scored an FDA nod to be used alongside Roche’s Avastin for ovarian cancer patients who’ve responded to one round of chemo regardless of their tumor's BRCA mutation status. It followed a similar nod by Zejula in the same first-line maintenance setting. But in a win for GSK, Zejula’s label covers a large subtype of the disease that Lynparza doesn’t have—tumors without homologous recombination deficiencies (HRD), which constitute about half of all ovarian cancer cases.