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Pfizer’s Blockbuster Migraine Portfolio Plan On Track With Zavzpret Approval

Second Product From $11.6bn Biohaven Acquisition

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Pfizer plans to build on the momentum gained for its oral drug Nurtec ODT, now the leading CGRP inhibitor, with the intranasal Zavzpret, which will be priced in line with the rest of the class. 

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Zavzpret provided rapid pain and symptom relief in its Phase III trial • Source: Shutterstock

With a July launch planned, Pfizer Inc. is poised to grow its commercial migraine product portfolio following US Food and Drug Administration approval of Zavzpret (zavegepant) for acute treatment. The intranasal CGRP inhibitor is the second migraine drug from its $11.6bn acquisition of Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. last year – a portfolio that the big pharma aims to grow into a $6bn franchise.

Zavzpret was approved 10 March as an acute treatment and will be marketed alongside Pfizer’s oral CGRP inhibitor Nurtec ODT (rimegepant)

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