Cut-Price Generics Set To Challenge Boehringer’s Nintedanib In India

Glenmark and Sun Pharma introduce nintedanib generics in India at a fraction of the innovator product’s price, vying for a share of the IPF market where pirfenidone currently holds sway.

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India Competition Arrives For Boehringer's Nintedanib • Source: Shutterstock

Front-line Indian firms have thrown down the gauntlet to Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH with the launch on the domestic market of their cut-price versions of nintedanib for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a chronic and ultimately fatal disease characterized by a decline in lung function.

First off the block appears to have been Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd

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