New Color On PCSK9 Inhibitors Previews Commercial Competition
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The sponsors of the PCSK9 inhibitor class are getting lots of data boxes ticked off with the results presented at the American College of Cardiology, but it’s still largely a waiting game as investors, practitioners and patients wait for regulatory submissions and outcomes trials. New details on doses and devices preview commercial battle between Amgen’s evolocumab and Sanofi/Regeneron’s alirocumab.
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