Lupuzor works10 May 2018 19:03
Benlysta grosses over $400mpa for GSK at over $20k per patient. Let�s say they treat 20k patients per year, on that basis.
There are 5m Lupus sufferers in the world. Treat them all with Benlysta at a cost of $1 trillion. Hmmm, the chances of that happening are about 1 trillion to one, obviously. Treating 100k patients at $10,000 each would be a good start with Lupuzor, so $1bn pa. IMM thought they could swing that on their own and for !00% of a $1bn market, who can blame them for going for it? Maybe a bigger trial would have given them the statistical significance they wanted and obviously thought they could achieve, but they didn�t pay for that and fell short.
Clinicians and patients have requested the open trial to continue for another six months, providing more data to add to the p3 results already given to the FDA and being shared with big pharma. Even if they only get 20% of the profits on a $1bn turnover, this sp will rocket. Any whiff of interest from a big pharma, and I strongly suggest GSK, will propel the sp far and fast.
As always, DYOR.