Anglo-Swedish pharma major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) has entered into an agreement with Switzerland-based Tillotts Pharma, part of the Japanese Zeria Group (TYO: 4559), for the divestment of global rights, outside the USA, to Entocort (budesonide), a gastroenterology drug for patients with mild to moderate Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Entocort is currently available in over 40 countries, with total product sales of $53 million outside the US in 2014. A regulatory submission for Entocort in Japan is anticipated in the coming months. In the USA, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE: TEVA) markets a generic version of budesonide.
AstraZeneca to receive $215 million on completion of transaction
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