Diabetes Launch Exellence - Lesson Learnt
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DIABETES LAUNCH EXCELLENCE –
A LESSON LEARNT ON DPP4 INHIBITOR GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY
By Anonymous
Growth in the market for Type II Diabetes treatments has consistently
out-performed the pharmaceutical market as a whole, and IMS believes that
this will continue for the next decade, driven by the obesity epidemic, an
aging population, and the advent of new therapies. In fact, in IMS’s
perspective, diabetes stands out as one of the elite group of major therapy
areas that will continue to outperform the market as a whole to 2016. Within
this out-performing group, it is also the only primary-care-driven therapy
area of any size, the others being specialist areas.
However, while epidemiology and unmet need mean there are multi-billion
dollar opportunities for successful launches and many potential contenders
for blockbuster status, success is still not a foregone conclusion.
IMS has studied the launch strategies and subsequent market performance of
the frontrunner products in the dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) therapeutic
class worldwide to understand what separates clear market leaders from those
with less impressive sales. From this, we’ve drawn key learnings pertinent to
companies preparing to launch one of the many products currently in
development for Type II Diabetes.
THE NEXT DECADE: A CROWDED FIELD
Over the next ten years, most of the new therapies introduced for Type II Diabetes will
cluster in just a few drug classes, meaning that the market will see a small number of
first-in-class launches followed by an avalanche of follower brands. These follower
products will naturally face a challenging launch environment if they cannot
demonstrate value propositions that are differentiated from first-in-class products in
the eyes of clinical opinion leaders, prescribers, and payers.
Nevertheless, experience has shown that companies whose products are not first to
market can still win—in specific segments or countries. Here, we examine how various
strategies have played out for companies marketing DPP-IV inhibitors and consider
the implications for products in the pipeline.
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DPP-IVs: CHANGING THE TREATMENT REGIMEN
Of the two recent new product classes to treat Type II Diabetes, the oral DPP-IVs and
the injectable GLP-1s, DPP-IV inhibitors stand out for their success in overall sales
levels, as they are used earlier and for a broader group of patients than the GLP-1s.
Although there is a range of existing oral diabetes therapies, the fact that no class
provides a definitive therapeutic approach to the disease means there is always
opportunity for new classes of oral agents for patients post metformin monotherapy.
DPP-IVs came into a largely generic oral market where the only on-patent oral agents,
the Thiazolidinediones (TZDs), were approaching loss of exclusivity, with one of the
two members of the class, Avandia® (rosiglitazone), facing a major question on safety.
The first DPP-IV inhibitor on the market was Januvia® (sitagliptin), introduced in the
U.S. in 2006 by Merck & Co. (Novartis’s Galvus® (vildagliptin) was delayed in the U.S.
due to questions of side effects). Since then, further DPP-IVs, Onglyza® (saxagliptin)
and Tradjenta™ (linagliptin) have also entered the market, and the pipeline promises
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