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Lilly’s Bio-Medicines Portfolio Grows To Offset Pressures In Key Markets

Where Rebates Eat Into Prices, Volume Makes Up The Difference

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Lilly Bio-Medicines president Ilya Yuffa oversees newer products in competitive therapeutic areas and drug classes, but additional indications and new therapies within the group’s immunology, pain and neuroscience focus areas will capitalize on the group’s existing commercial expertise. 

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With pressure growing in areas like psoriasis, Lilly Bio-Medicines is expanding into other inflammatory diseases like ulcerative colitis • Source: Shutterstock

Lilly Bio-Medicines president Ilya Yuffa is responsible for a portfolio of commercial products experiencing high sales growth rates, but with the exception of Taltz (ixekizumab), Eli Lilly and Company’s immunology, pain and neuroscience therapies are growing from a smaller base than the blockbuster drugs in the company’s established diabetes and burgeoning oncology portfolios. 

Scrip spoke with Yuffa about Lilly’s plans for its Bio-Medicines portfolio to offset competition and reimbursement constraints for Taltz, Olumiant (baricitinib), Emgality (galcanezumab) and Reyvow (lasmiditan), which are being marketed in

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