Almirall Pleased With Promising Start For Ebglyss

The Barcelona-headquartered group’s Lilly-partnered atopic dermatitis drug is enjoying a decent launch in Germany and reimbursement has just been secured in the UK.

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It is still early days but Almirall SA's atopic dermatitis drug Ebglyss has made a promising start, and the Spanish firm has also been trumpeting its psoriasis drug Ilumetri after posting a healthy set of financials for the first half of 2024.

Ebglyss (lebrikizumab), which obtained EU and UK approval at the end of 2023 for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis and was launched in Germany in December, had sales of €10.8m in the first half, including €7.2m in the second quarter. Almirall CEO Carlos Gallardo told analysts on a 22 July call that the Eli Lilly and Company-partnered interleukin-13 inhibitor had secured a double-digit share of the new dynamic market, ie first time users and switchers, and had already passed all other approved "advanced systemics" for atopic dermatitis - LEO Pharma A/S’s anti-IL-13 Adtralza/Adbry (tralokinumab) and three JAK inhibitors, namely AbbVie Inc

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