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GSK Tailors SWIFT Readout Towards Asthma Approval

 
• By Elizabeth Cairns

The twice-yearly depemokimab will soon head to the regulators, but it will need to succeed repeatedly if it is to make the £3bn peak sales GSK is hoping for.    

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GSK plc has high hopes for depemokimab, having previously suggested that it could bring in peak sales of more than £3bn ($3.8bn). For that to happen the ultra-long-acting IL-5 inhibitor will have to hit in a suite of late-stage trials, but the UK group is off to a good start with the results of two asthma studies.

Key Takeaways
  • GSK’s IL-5 inhibitor depemokimab has hit in two Phase III trials in severe asthma

The twin Phase III trials SWIFT-1 and SWIFT-2, which assessed depemokimab in patients with severe asthma with type 2 inflammation...

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