After Lundbeck’s $2B acquisition of Longboard, investors scrambled for serotonin analogs. Here’s why Bright Minds was the target and what it says about the future of rare epilepsy drug development.
Drug exclusivity is an important metric to track when monitoring pharma portfolios. RxDataLab has created a dashboard to monitor estimated drug patent and exclusivity expiration in the US.
Visualizing the rise in Investigational New Drug (IND) receipts and active INDs during 2019-2020. With no major regulatory changes, the spike appears linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about how it shaped drug development.
The drug development process consists of 5 distinct steps, and there are data sources available to learn more about each step. Here I will cover some of the most important for our work.
81% of drugs approved in 2000 have generic equivalents in 2024. We will dive into how we used the Orange Book to answer this question, and how we approach these problems.
The FTC recently challenged over 100 Orange Book patent listings for drugs including blockbuster Ozempic. In fact, up to 89% of claimed patents were challenged for certain drugs. Here we dive into what was challenged, whether it matters, and what happens now.
The Orange Book, formally known as "Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations", is a publication that provides consolidated intellectual property, exclusivity information, and therapeutic equivalents for FDA approved brand name drugs.
Brief rundown of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), the center that handles approvals and monitoring for new drug applications, generics, and more at FDA.
Understand the various types of exclusivity and intellectual property protections surround pharmaceutical products in the United States
Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1), Semaglutide, and other GLP-1 targeting drugs are involved in many clinical trials as of July 2024. Here, we cover some of the conditions with active clinical trials that may not be getting as much attention as the weight loss and diabetes cases.