Astellas’s US Commercial Head Petroutsas On New Launches

The Japanese pharma’s new US commercial head Michael Petroutsas talked to Scrip about the launches of Veozah and Izervay.

Astellas has two drug launches underway • Source: Shutterstock

Astellas Pharma, Inc. has two new growth drivers – the women’s health drug Veozah (fezolinetant) and the eye disease drug Izervay (avacincaptad pegol) – that are expected to help make up for the loss of revenue from Myrbetriq (mirabegron) to generics this year and eventually sales declines for the company’s biggest seller, Xtandi (enzalutamide).

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