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Bristol Launches Zeposia For MS, Sees Advantages In The COVID-19 Environment

 
• By Jessica Merrill

After delaying the launch of the MS treatment due to the pandemic, Bristol now says the market is ready for a new launch. Immunology US business unit head Tina Deignan talked to Scrip about it.

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Bristol is launching Zeposia for multiple sclerosis • Source: Shutterstock

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bristol Myers Squibb Co. initially delayed the launch of Zeposia (ozanimod) in the US for relapsing-remitting forms of multiple sclerosis. But now that physicians have had time to adjust their practices, the company launched the drug on 1 June and views the social distancing caused by the outbreak as a potential advantage.

Zeposia is the third sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator on the market, following behind Novartis AG's Gilenya (fingolimod) and Mayzent (siponimod)

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