Dr Reddy’s senior management took on a barrage of questions on the emerging opportunity for semaglutide in markets like Canada at the firm’s earnings call for the third quarter of fiscal 2025, signaling how things may shape there when the GLP-I agonist goes off patent next year.
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Dr Reddy’s hopes to be the “first one in the pack”, when Ozempic loses patent cover next year in markets like Canada, where the semaglutide opportunity is projected at $2bn. Openings for the product in 80 smaller markets also loom, it said, but the GLP-1 agonist won’t ‘replace’ generic Revlimid and all business levers will have to grow.

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