Sales of multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapies exceeded $6.0 billion in 2008 across the seven major markets (USA, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK). Market research group Datamonitor anticipates the combination of continuing strong historical growth dynamics and the uptake of the first oral therapies to result in the market value peaking at $8.4 billion in 2013 before the advent of biosimilars.
The report is timely, with the recent news of two oral MS drugs vying to be first to the market - fingolimod from Swiss drug major Novartis and cladribine from Germany's Merck KGaA (The Pharma Letter January 22).
Highlights of Datamonitor findings
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