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Executive Interview: Vectura's Ward-Lilley On Re-Focusing On The Respiratory Sector

 
• By John Davis

Respiratory delivery specialist Vectura is to concentrate on developing enhanced inhaled products, as well as substitutable inhaled generics for the US market, and is pulling back from NME work. CEO James Ward-Lilley explains why.  

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Vectura CEO James Ward-Lilley • Source: Vectura PLC.

UK respiratory specialty company Vectura Group PLC is aiming to develop a pipeline of new inhaled generic products that CEO James Ward-Lilley believes will deliver significant value over the years to come, including proprietary nebulized products and generic versions of AstraZeneca PLC's Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol), Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH's Spiriva (tiotropium) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Ellipta portfolio, as well as the delayed generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's Advair (fluticasone/salmeterol), VR-315.

Vectura announced in the middle of last month that it had started development of generic versions of the Ellipta portfolio...

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