Pipeline and Commercial Insight: Neuropathic Pain - UCB's Vimpat set to compete with major players

Datamonitor
June 16, 2008
239 Pages - SKU: DFMN1813352
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Introduction

The neuropathic pain market is forecast to almost triple to over $6.3 billion by the end of the forecast period in 2017. The growth in the market is spurred on by the uptake of Pfizer's Lyrica (pregabalin), forecast to reach almost $3 billion in sales by 2017. Vimpat is the most promising pipeline drug, forecast to take some $480m by 2017.

Scope
  • Analysis of patient potential, unmet needs and clinical trial design in the neuropathic pain market.
  • Overview of key marketed brands, late- and early-stage pipeline drugs.
  • Country-specific sales volume and value forecasts to 2017 of marketed brands, generics, and key late-stage pipeline drugs.
  • Identification of future market events that are expected to affect neuropathic pain revenues.
Highlights

UCB's Vimpat (lacosamide) demonstrates the most potential in the pipeline and is well suited to compete in this market. Datamonitor has forecast Vimpat to generate over $480m, over a third of the total pipeline sales by 2017.

Neuropathic pain offers diverse market opportunities, with niche underserved neuropathic pain indications (e.g. HIV associated neuropathic pain) offering a good market entry point.

Following the recent negative FDA advice on Cephalon's Fentora, Datamonitor has forecast that the drug will not launch for neuropathic pain. This is a blow to the development of a niche breakthrough neuropathic pain market.

Reasons to Purchase
  • Benchmark key late-stage pipeline neuropathic pain drugs against current market leading brands.
  • Assess country-specific (US, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) sales forecasts of key late-stage pipeline drugs and marketed brands.
  • Understand unmet needs and opportunities in the neuropathic pain market based on key opinion leader comments.
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