Belgium's UCB Is Almost Over Its Patent Cliff, But Guides Revenues And Profits To Decline In 2012

UCB Pharma's trio of new products is managing, for now, to compensate for the generic erosion to its best-selling anti-epileptic Keppra.

The worst may nearly be over for the mid-sized biopharma UCB Group. Leaning on a trio of newer products – Cimzia, Vimpat and Neupro – the Belgian company expects soon to end a five-year period of flat or declining revenues due to genericization, and to return to growth in 2013.

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