During the forecast period from 2012-2022, the growth of the UC market will be driven largely by the entry of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) Simponi and Takeda’s Entyvio, which will lead to an increase in the overall number of patients being treated with biologics in the US, 5EU, Japan, and Canada. Another key event affecting the UC market is the anticipated launch of biosimilars, given that the patent expiry of the UC blockbusters, Remicade and Humira are set to expire in the US in 2018 and 2016, respectively.
Humira is considered a first-generation, first-line biologic therapy for the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis. It is injected subcutaneously and is administered every two weeks (Humira package insert, 2011). Despite being the second anti-TNF to launch for UC, its rise to the top of the anti-TNF class is due, in part, to its SC administration, along with AbbVie’s extensive marketing experience. Humira is marketed by AbbVie in the US and Europe, and by Eisai in Japan.
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