High prevalence, late diagnosis, poor control over time with all possible medications and low awareness have been adding the highest Diabetes patient pool, affecting millions of Indians each year…Paradoxically this biggest chronic illness is making bigger growth opportunities for all related industries and millions of individuals…
Diabetes in India and antidiabetic’s outperformance over Indian Pharma Market is probably a great reflection of a make and break (indeed break and make) phenomena
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DIABETES In India…biggest chronic illness making a spurt in immense future opportunities...
1. DIABETES…biggest chronic illness making a
spurt in immense future opportunities in India…
Saikat Chaudhury
Email Id: saikat.chaudhury@rediffmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/pub/saikat-chaudhury/1a/b05/ab
High prevalence, late diagnosis, poor control over time with all possible medications and low
awareness have been adding the highest Diabetes patient pool, affecting millions of Indians each
year…Paradoxically this biggest chronic illness is making bigger growth opportunities for all related
industries and millions of individuals…
Diabetes in India and antidiabetic’s outperformance over Indian Pharma Market is probably a great
reflection of a make and break (indeed break and make) phenomena
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-11-19/news/56265356_1_pharma-market-therapies-volume-growth
“Gearing up for the growth of
chronic illnesses in the country,
Indian pharma companies have
gradually changed their portfolio
from being predominantly acute
therapies focussed to include
more of the higher-margin
chronic therapies…”
2. Antidiabetics are now 6th largest therapy area and contributes 8% of sales in IPM
Currently 17 multinationals and approx. 150 domestic companies are playing with approx. 1220
brands with close to 2800 SKUs…
Organizations
A.MENARINI INDIA* ACRON COMED CHEMICALS HAMDARD LIFEMEDICARE ORCHID CHEM&PHARM* STRIDES SHASUN
ABBOTT* AIMIL CORONA REMEDIES HEGDE & HEGDE LINCOLN PHARMA ORDAIN HEALTHCARE SUN*
ADCOCK INGRAM AJANTA PHARMA D.R.JOHNS LAB HELIOS LISTER OVERSEAS SYSTOPIC
ASTRAZENECA AKESISS PHARMA DELCURE LIF.SCIEN. HIMALAYA DRUG LIVIDUS PHARMA OZONE TALENT
BAYER ZYDUS PHARMA AKUMENTIS HEALTH DEY S ICON LIFESCIENCES LLOYD HEALTHCARE PALSONS DERMA TAS MED
BOEHRINGER INGELH. ALDE MEDI IMPEX DINDAYAL AUSHADI INDI PHARMA LUPIN LIMITED PANACEA BIOTEC TORRENT PHARMA
ELI LILLY ALEMBIC DR REDDYS LABS INDIAN NAT DRUG MAC PARENTERAL DRUGS TTK HEALTHCARE LTD
GLAXOSMITHKLINE* ALKEM* EAST AFRICAN INDICA MACLEODS PHARMA PRECIA PHARMA U S V
JANSSEN AMRUT EAST INDIA INDOCO* MAKERS LABS PREMIER NUTRACEUT. UNICHEM*
MEDREICH LIFECARE ANTHUS PHARMA EAST WEST PHARMA IND-SWIFT MANEESH PHARMA* PSYCHOTROPICS UNIDENT MANUFACT.
MERCK LIMITED APEX KOYE PHARMA INEXIOS PHARMA MANKIND RADICURA PHARMA UNISON PHARMA
MSD PHARMACEUTICA* APRICA PHARMA LA PHARMA INGA MARC LABORATORIES REGENIX DRUGS UTH HEALTHCARE
NOVO NORDISK ARISTO PHARMA* ELDER PHARMA INTAS PHARMA* MARK LAB RELIANCE LIFESCIE. VENUS REMEDIES
NOVARTIS INTL.* BAIDYANATH EMCEE IPCA LABS MED MANOR ORGANICS RETORT LABS VERITAZ HEALTHCARE
PFIZER* BAN LABS. EMCURE* J J.DECHANE MEDLEY PHARMA RHINE BIOGENICS WALLACE
SANOFI* BIOCON ERIS LIFE SCIENCES JAGSON PAL MEDO PHARMA RPG LIFE SCIENCES WIN MEDICARE
SERDIA BLUE CROSS FDC JENBURKT MERIDIAN LAB SAMARTH PHARMA WINGS PHARMA
BURNET PHARMA FOURTS INDIA JUBILANT LIFESCIEN MEYER ORGANICS SANDU PHARMA WOCKHARDT LTD*
CADILA PHARMA FRANCO INDIAN KARNATAKA ANTIBIOT MICRO LABS* SEAGULL LABS ZANDU PHARMA
CENTAUR FRANKLIN LABS KHANDELWAL MIDAS CARE SHIELD HEALTHCARE ZYDUS CADILA*
CHARAK PHARMA GLAND PHARMA KON TEST CHEMICALS MOREPEN LABS SHINE PHARMA
CHEMECH LABS GLENMARK PHARMA KOPRAN MSN LABS SHREYA LIFE SCIENC
CIPLA GOLDLINE PHARMACE. PULSE PHARMA NATCO PHARMA SHRINIVAS LABS
COLINZ GRAF LABS QUALITY INNOVATION OBSURGE BIOTECH STADMED PRIVATE
Source: IMS May’16
3. Interesting?
It’s fascinating! All possible combinations* and more surprisingly, almost everything has grown
year after year and most of them are growing at good pace, I have taken a cut of main Oral
Antidiabetics and their growth trajectories (Volume) for consecutive four years…
It’s important to mention here, in 2015 four new molecules made excellent debut. Cost effective
DPP4 inhibitor, Teneligliptin and SGLT2 inhibitors (Canagliflozin, Dapagliflzin and Empagliflozin)
added 12.8 $mio (Teneligliptin 6.1 $mio & SGLT2i 6.6 $mio) in antidiabetic market. 25 brands of
Teneligliptin are launched so far by 21 companies (IMS Mat-16), On the other hand 3 MNCs are
making inroads with 4 SGLT2i Brands (USV- partner brand of canagliflozin).
Injectable contribute ~25% (approx. 350 $mio) of antidiabetic market and currently growing
approx. 21% (MAT May’16). MIXTARD is the biggest Indian Pharma brand (~80 $mio), newer
combinations and innovative drug delivery system of GLP1 agonists (Once Weekly) will enrich this
sub category in coming Days
Great learnings!
How chronic illness made a spurt in business opportunity for pharma and therefore a steady
change in portfolio by companies…
How parent companies are keeping Share of Voice high for their molecules by adopting
partnership model in extremely cluttered market to build top line
Molecule Value Parent Partner I When? Partner II When? Partner III When?
DPP4 inhibitors $mio (approx.) Cont % Cont % Launch + Cont % Launch + Cont % Launch +
Vildagliptin 125 NOVARTIS (53%) U S V (35%) 3 months ABBOTT (7%) 18 months EMCURE (5%) 38 months
Sitagliptin 104* MSD (60%) SUN (29%) 38 months
Linaglptin 26 BOEHRINGER I (94%) LUPIN (6%) 42 months
Saxagliptin 14 ASTRAZENECA (97%) DR REDDYS (3%) 68 months
Teneligliptin 21 25 brands (branded generics)
SGLT2i inhibitors $mio (approx.) Cont % Cont % Launch + Cont % Launch + Cont % Launch +
Canagliflozin 6 JANSSEN (73%) USV (27%) 7 months
Dapagliflozin 6 ASTRAZENECA (100%) SUN Yet to launch
Empagliflozin 2.5 BOEHRINGER I.
* Including Glenmark's brands (Zita & Zita Met) which holds 11% of Sitagliptin MAT TSA May'16
Many people believe that
the growth of antidiabetics
are largely driven by the
newer molecules for last 6-7
years (especially DPP4
inhibitors) however the
reality is, older molecules
(e.g. SU+Metformin) have
shown consistent volume
growth despite been getting
challenges by competition
about their safety profile…
4. When going gets tough, how one should strategize…after losing Sitagliptin battle in October 2015
Glenmark made strongest entry with cost effective DPP4 inhibitor, teneligliptin and combination…
How evolved science can reshape the expectation of treatment outcome…, SGLT2 inhibitors are
setting new expectation by building a concept of multiple benefits for comprehensive diabetes
management through an unique MOA
How benchmarks are getting challenged every time to set a new benchmark of launch
excellence…Forxiga (Dapagliflozin ASTRAZENECA) set a new benchmark in chronic care (5.7 $mio
in 12 months of launch) in IPM, left Ryzodeg Flextouch (Insulin Aspart Recombinant + Insulin
Degludec Recombinant NOVO Nordisk) and Trajenta (Linagliptin BOEHRINGER INGELHIM)
behind…
How Patient care initiatives payed off in building brand perception and improved patient HCP
interactions over a period of time, beside awareness and patient support it gave enough and more
opportunities to understand the patient journey form “first surprise” to “live with it”
Future is brighter!
Yes! The momentum is so positive, anyone can tell, this will be one of the most strong therapy
areas to stick with
Beyond intellectual aspects such as, prevalence, awareness, Healthcare spent of Govt., GDP,
insurance, epidemiological factors, patient access, affordability, socioeconomic improvement
expectations (which are relatively difficult to understand) let me put some definite marker which
are easy to understand and evident for Antidiabetic therapy area perspective…
1) This decade is witnessing best of Antidiabetics
28 Antidiabetics are approved by FDA (since 2010)which is double compared to last decade
and about 4-5 are expected in next couple of years... interestingly most these drugs are
getting launched in India within 1.5 - 2 years of US launch (follow my post
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10310803/10310803-6173452026312257539?trk=hp-feed-group-discussion )
2) Partnership Model success
Looking at the success of Galvus (Novartis) and Januvia (MSD), most parent MNCs are now
keen to adopt this model early in the life cycle to leverage the time of patent protection,
increased SOV of molecule and early penetration in tier 2,3 and rural markets…
3) Dedicated Diabetes Care Center/Hospitals
As the awareness and diagnosis increases over last 5-6 years, Heath care professionals have
been playing a great role in developing dedicated diabetes clinic/care center and Diabetes
care hospitals, this centers/hospitals will continue to play important role in building brands...
“...Hospital will increasingly be instrumental in building
pharmaceutical product brand, a material proportion of
prescription for chronic ailments is being generated in a
hospital settings…”
McKinney article: India Pharma 2020 Propelling access and acceptance, realising true potential
5. 4) Branded generics
It is obvious that anything this growth trend will attract more and more companies to invest
in this segment especially when almost everything is growing year after year…What could
be a better example of 33 teneligliptin brand in 12 months making approx. 4.2 $mio of
business per month
Infact there are many in the list, no doubt most of the factors will in favor in creating great
opportunities for antidiabetics and related all industries and individuals…
A key risk to this outlook seems from the use of price controls if any, which may create some
uncertainty in the market and could serve to dissuade investments, particularly from multinational
pharmaceutical firms.
Saikat Chaudhury
Email Id: saikat.chaudhury@rediffmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/saikat-chaudhury/1a/b05/ab