Actelion’s Opsumit Ramps Up As Tracleer Patent Loss Gets Closer

The Swiss biotech’s top-selling product Tracleer still accounts for 75% of its sales but Actelion has a strategy that includes launching new PAH therapies and developing a specialty pharma pipeline to cope with the upcoming loss of patent protection.

Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd.’s three-year-old strategy of diversifying its business away from top-selling Tracleer (bosentan) appears to be maturing in the nick of time, with the ramp-up in sales of its latest PAH therapy Opsumit (macitentan) likely to replace company revenues lost through emerging generic competition to Tracleer and several other products including inhaled therapy Ventavis (iloprost) and the oral Gaucher disease therapy Zavesca (miglustat).

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