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Ipsen In No Doubt About Its Abilities To Launch

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Sales of the French firm’s new products missed consensus forecasts but CEO David Loew is confident that those drugs and the therapies that are close to the market will be commercial successes.

David Loew
David Loew • Source: Ipsen

Ipsen SA has posted a decent set of fourth quarter financials, with CEO David Loew touting the French drugmaker's pipeline progress which should result in the launches for four new medicines or new indications in 2024.

The first of those is likely to be for Onivyde (irinotecan), which first won US Food and Drug Administration approval in combination with fluorouracil and leucovorin for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma that has progressed after gemcitabine-based chemotherapy back in 2015

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