March 17 (Reuters) – Indian drugmakers Zydus Lifesciences and Lupin have signed a licensing and supply \u200cdeal on Tuesday to co\u2011market semaglutide injections in \u200cthe country ahead of the ingredient’s patent expiry.<\/p>\n
Semaglutide is a GLP-1 \u200breceptor agonist used to treat Type 2 Diabetes and, increasingly, for weight management by helping regulate blood sugar and appetite.<\/p>\n
The upcoming patent expiry for semaglutide has \u200ctriggered a rush among \u2060Indian drugmakers to develop cheaper versions to capture market share in the world’s most \u2060populous nation, which has the second-highest number of adults with diabetes after China.<\/p>\n
Here are some key details:<\/p>\n
* \u200bLupin will \u200bhave semi\u2011exclusive rights to \u200bco\u2011market Zydus’injection under the \u200cbrand names Semanext and Lupin’s Livarise. * Lupin will pay Zydus upfront licensing fees andmilestone-based payments. * Zydus will manufacture the product at its Ahmedabadfacility in Gujarat, and market the product under the brandnames Semaglyntm, Mashematm And \u200cAlterme. * Unlike existing treatments that \u200brequire multiplesingle-use pens, Zydus’ single-adjustable \u200bpen will allowpatients select \u200bdifferent doses, lowering costs. * In January, \u200cZydus received approval from India’s \u200bregulatorto make and \u200bsell generic versions of the weight-loss drugs. * Larger peer Dr Reddy’s Laboratories is likely to launchits \u200bgeneric semaglutide \u200cinjection in March under the brand nameObeda, Reuters \u200breported last month.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Urvi Dugar in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 17 (Reuters) – Indian drugmakers Zydus Lifesciences and Lupin have signed a licensing and supply \u200cdeal on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,84224,46518,4326,238948,238949,16,15,238947],"class_list":["post-833105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-lupin","tag-market-share","tag-medication","tag-patent-expiry","tag-receptor-agonist","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zydus-lifesciences"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116247968188475940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}