Viatris to commercialize Calliditas' Nefecon in Japan

13 December 2022

Providing further evidence that generics major Viatris (Nasdaq: VTRS) is pushing wider beyond copy drugs, the company has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Sweden’s Calliditas Therapeutics (Nasdaq: Stockholm: CALTX) to register and commercialize the latter’s Nefecon in Japan.

Nefecon, new oral formulation of budesonide, is approved in Europe and the USA for the treatment of the chronic autoimmune disease immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN). It is marketed under the name Tarpeyo in the USA and in the European Union as Kinpeygo.

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