Sunovion To Commercialize Novartis’s COPD Products In US

Sunovion has secured US rights to Novartis's respiratory inhalers, and will cash in on Novartis's FLAME data in COPD patients which recently helped change treatment guidelines.

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., owned by Japanese group Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. Ltd., has exclusively licensed rights to commercialize three approved respiratory treatments from Novartis AG: the LABA/LAMA Utibron Neohaler (indacaterol and glycopyrrolate), Seebri Neohaler (glycopyrrolate) and Arcapta Neohaler (indacaterol), which are all indicated for COPD.

Utibron Neohaler and Seebri Neohaler were approved by the US FDA in 2015, and Sunovion plans to bring them to...

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