IBD Market Snapshot: New Medicines Try To Address Patient, Physician Demands

Oral Drugs, Novel Biologics Offer New Options

 
• By Mandy Jackson
  
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Remission rates with existing therapies leave much room for improvement, so a variety of treatments are needed – leaving major players attempting to carve unique paths in a crowded market.

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New drugs are looking to enter the mature inflammatory bowel disease market by focusing on the remaining unmet needs, with clinical development programs aimed at improving remission rates beyond what is possible with existing therapies and maintaining remission for longer periods of time, while providing relief in the near-term from symptoms that patients describe as debilitating aspects of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease that impact their daily lives, such as bowel urgency.

Oral JAK inhibitors and S1P receptor modulators are just the start for novel mechanisms coming to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),...

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