Sun Builds On Psoriasis Data But Can It Hold In Crowded Space?

Sun Pharma’s executive vice president, biologics and dermatology, Jesper Ostergaard Jensen, elaborates on some aspects of the recent encouraging data around the company’s late stage psoriasis asset, tildrakizumab. Jensen also tells Scrip that the firm is upbeat about its acne and photodynamic therapy products in the US.

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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has underscored the potential long-term efficacy of its late stage psoriasis asset, tildrakizumab, as part of recent new analyses from the Phase I and the pivotal Phase III clinical trials (reSURFACE 1 and 2) of the investigational IL-23p19 inhibitor.

The pivotal Phase III reSURFACE trial results presented to date are through week 64 and indicate “significantly improved” skin clearance...

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