Following a year marked by aggressive pricing pressures weighing down on revenues and margins – pressures that “intensified beyond historical norms and our recent expectations,” as one company put it – the first quarter of 2022 provided some green shoots of optimism, albeit for companies that have been able to shift resources to more complex assets.

Following a year marked by aggressive pricing pressures weighing down on revenues and margins – pressures that “intensified beyond historical norms and our recent expectations,” as one company put it – the first quarter of 2022 provided some green shoots of optimism, albeit for companies that have been able to shift resources to more complex assets.

Aurobindo has settled US patent litigation with Teva over Austedo, giving the Indian company an April 2033 launch date for generic deutetrabenazine, matching the date gained by Lupin in an earlier settlement.

Aurobindo is aiming for a regulatory filing in FY24/25 of its first immunology biosimilar, potentially a version of Novartis/Roche’s Xolair. Meanwhile, a pneumococcal vaccine is expected to be filed in India in the second half of FY23.