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Can UCB's Bimekizumab Go From Last To First In Psoriasis?

Skin Clearance Data Tops Rivals

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Although it is playing catching up on well-established rivals, especially Novartis's Cosentyx, the Belgian company believes that bimekizumab provides both a fast and durable response for psoriasis patients, driven by impressive PASI 100 rates.

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UCB hopes bimekizumab can overtake Cosentyx for psoriasis • Source: Shutterstock

UCB Group may be late to the party when it comes to innovative psoriasis biologics but the latest sets of skin clearance data presented on its investigational IL-17A and IL-17F inhibitor bimekizumab suggest that the Belgian group's therapy could prove to be superior to rivals, not least Novartis AG's big-earning Cosentyx.

The company has unveiled full data at the virtual American Academy of Dermatology meeting from the BE VIVID head-to-head study with Johnson & Johnson's IL-12/23 inhibitor blockbuster Stelara (ustekinumab) and the placebo comparator BE READY trial which both show that bimekizumab achieved superior skin clearance. In the former, 58

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