Global Market of Monoclonal Antibodies: Sales, Prices, Demand

Abstract

Bio-pharmaceutics is one of the most science-intensive industries. Annually a lot of money is spent on applied research aimed at development and commercialization of new medications. Many pharmaceutical companies try to have in their product line or pipeline drugs on the basis of monoclonal antibodies, i.e. a class of biotechnological preparations that are used to combat oncologic and autoimmune diseases and are based on target therapy principle. Because of the high interest in bio-pharmaceutical industry on the part of businessmen, state and science any advanced data dealing with the situation inside the market can be useful for shaping the adequate picture of the present day condition and for making managerial decisions on state and private level. The article provides information about global sales of preparations based on monoclonal antibodies. Apart from sales in terms of money the author calculates the natural volume of products being sold based on price analysis of products. The article gives a list of preparations registered on EU and US markets rated by their sales. By analyzing preparation prices corrected to dosage it was possible to find the most expensive and the cheapest medications in their class. Information concerning the natural volume of drug being sold can help understand the scale of preparation production.

Keywords

• bio-pharmaceutics
• pharmaceutical market
• monoclonal antibodies
• bio-analogues
• bio-similars
• sales
• biotechnologies
• target therapy
• bigpharma
• industries
• innovation production