Abstract
Overview
Introduction
The neuropathic pain market is forecast to double from 2006 to reach over $7 billion by 2016. At this time, the current late-stage neuropathic pain pipeline is forecast to take only 18% of the total market share, highlighting an opportunity for better pipeline drugs that demonstrate improved pain management. The most promising and closest pipeline drug to market is UCB' s Vimpat (lacosamide).
Scope
- Analysis of patient potential, unmet needs and clinical trial design in neuropathic pain
- Overview of drugs in late- and early-stage clinical development; with analysis of key companies involved in the market
- Detailed profiles of key compounds in development for use in neuropathic pain, with indication-specific drug sales forecasts to 2016
- Discussion of Pfizer, Eli Lilly and UCB' s market strategies and insight from key opinion leaders
Highlights
UCB' s increasing CNS portfolio is further bolstered by the imminent arrival of Vimpat on the market. CNS is a key area of investigation for UCB, constituting 39% of their sales in 2006. UCB has further expanded its reach by trialling this anticonvulsant not just for epilepsy but also for neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, migraine and osteoarthritis.
NeurogesX' s Transacin (capsaicin) treatment is set to cause a stir in the topical market, currently dominated by Endo' s Lidoderm (lidocaine 5% patch). The advantageous 3 monthly dosing regimen coupled with a strong efficacy and safety profile, will see Transacin draw favorable returns in its niche market.
Pfizer will continue to be a major contender in neuropathic pain, with the current market leader Lyrica predicted to be an even greater commercial success than its predecessor Neurontin (gabapentin). Pfizer' s branded drugs are forecast to capture a substantial 41% of the neuropathic pain market share in 2016.
Reasons to Purchase
- Understand unmet needs in the neuropathic pain market based on key opinion leader insight
- Benchmark key late-stage neuropathic pain compounds against current market leaders
- Assess the global (US, Japan, five major EU) sales forecasts of key late-stage pipeline drugs; and examine their clinical and commercial potential
Table of Contents
- ABOUT DATAMONITOR HEALTHCARE
- About the Central Nervous System pharmaceutical analysis team
- CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Scope of the analysis
- Datamonitor insight into the Neuropathic pain market
- Key metrics
- Datamonitor Pipeline Assessment Summary
- Related reports
- CHAPTER 2 PIPELINE OVERVIEW AND DYNAMICS
- Pipeline overview
- Phase II and above
- Discontinued and suspended projects
- Projects recently suspended or discontinued
- Pristiq
- Lamictal XR
- Gabapentin GR
- ACV-1
- Namenda (memantine)
- Traxoprodil
- AZD-4282
- Projects recently suspended or discontinued
- Key companies involved in the neuropathic pain pipeline
- Pfizer
- Neurontin
- Lyrica
- Eli Lilly
- Cymbalta
- UCB
- Vimpat
- Brivaracetam
- Pfizer
- Key R&D company strategies
- Reformulation strategies: Gabapentin
- Gabapentin GR
- XP13512
- Patient subgroups
- Reformulation strategies: Gabapentin
- CHAPTER 3 NEUROPATHIC PAIN - MARKET OVERVIEW
- Definition of neuropathic pain
- Segmentation of neuropathic pain
- Segmentation of neuropathic pain differs depending on the geographic
market
- General neuropathic pain provides a broader customer base in the EU
- US approval requires evidence in each neuropathic pain subtype
- Major neuropathic pain subtypes
- Diabetic neuropathic pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- HIV neuropathic pain
- Neuropathic low-back pain
- Other subtypes
- Segmentation of neuropathic pain differs depending on the geographic
market
- Epidemiology
- Diabetic neuropathic pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- HIV neuropathic pain
- Post operative pain
- Current market overview
- Five treatments are currently marketed for neuropathic pain
- Off-label prescribing
- US dominated market
- Unmet need in neuropathic pain
- Clinical unmet need
- 1. Improved efficacy
- 2. Improved side effect profile
- 3. Reduced time to onset of action
- 4. Fewer drug-drug interactions
- 5. Pill burden
- Clinical unmet need
- CHAPTER 4 R&D APPROACH
- Classification of pipeline products
- Glutamate receptor modulators
- NMDA
- AMPA
- Kainate
- Ion channel modulators
- Sodium channels
- Calcium channels
- GABA modulators
- Monoamine modulators
- SNRIs
- Dopamine
- Others
- Cannabinoid agonists
- Vanilloid receptor agonists
- Substance P release modulators
- ACh receptor agonists
- NGF modulators
- TNF alpha antagonists
- Adrenoceptor modulation
- Adenosine A2 agonist
- Free radicals
- Glutamate receptor modulators
- Clinical trial design in neuropathic pain
- Choice of endpoint is the key clinical trial design factor in
neuropathic pain
- Head-to-head trials of increasing importance
- Lyrica is the choice of ideal comparator drug for head-to-head clinical trials
- Length of trial should indicate titration period for physician ease of use
- The Initiative on Methods, Measurements and Pain Assessments in Clinical trials (IMMPACT)
- European Federation of Neurological Societies assessment
- Clinical trial endpoints in neuropathic pain
- 50% reduction in pain is a primary measure of efficacy
- Multiple pain and quality of life assessment questionnaires should be used in trials
- Clinical trial drop-out as an endpoint
- Choice of endpoint is the key clinical trial design factor in
neuropathic pain
- Classification of pipeline products
- CHAPTER 5 GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR MODULATORS LATE-STAGE DRUG ANALYSIS &
FORECASTS
- Overview of glutamate receptor modulators
- Pipeline summary
- Comparative forecasts
- Definition of current comparator therapy
- Pfizer' s Lyrica is Datamonitor' s comparator therapy
- Lidoderm is the topical comparator therapy
- Zenvia (dextromethorphan & quinidine sulfate)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase III trial
- Patient potential
- Marketing factors
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy
- Improved side effect profile: potential to cause upset
- Reduced pill burden
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- NP-1 (ketamine & amitriptyline)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase II trial
- Patient potential
- NP-1' s topical use attracts a wide treatment range
- Potential negative aspects
- Marketing factors
- Antidepressant topical mechanism of action
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy
- Improved side effect profile
- Reduced pill burden
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- CNS-5161
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase IIa trial
- Phase I trial
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy
- Improved side effect profile
- Reduced pill burden
- Datamonitor comments
- V3381
- Clinical trial data
- Phase IIa study
- Phase I study
- Preclinical studies:
- Datamonitor comments
- Clinical trial data
- Other glutamate receptor modulators
- RGH-896
- EVT-101
- NS-1209
- NGX-426
- Late-stage development compounds recently discontinued
- AZD-9272
- Overview of glutamate receptor modulators
- CHAPTER 6 ION CHANNEL MODULATORS LATE-STAGE DRUG ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS
- Overview of ion channel modulators
- Pipeline summary
- Comparative forecasts
- Definition of current comparator therapy
- Vimpat (lacosamide)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase III study
- Phase II study
- Patient potential
- Sodium channels have potential to be lucrative market
- Marketing factors
- Vimpat is being investigated for epilepsy along with other indications like many neuropathic pain treatments
- UCB looks set to become a big player in the CNS market
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy: data promising
- Improved side-effect profile
- Fewer drug-drug interactions: add to physician confidence in Vimpat
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Lamictal XR
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase II Lamictal clinical trial
- Phase III
- Improved side effect profile: a big problem in neuropathic pain
- Forecasts to 2016
- Ralfinamide
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase II study results
- Phase IIa study
- Patient potential
- Multiple neuropathic pain indications indicate mechanistic approach
- Marketing factors
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy
- Reduced time to onset of action
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Other ion channel modulators
- ABT-894
- Bupivacaine (Eladur)
- Lidocaine patch KN-48
- Brivaracetam
- Late-stage development compounds recently discontinued
- ACV-1
- Overview of ion channel modulators
- CHAPTER 7 GABA MODULATORS LATE-STAGE DRUG ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS
- Overview of GABA receptor modulators
- Pipeline summary
- Comparative forecasts
- Definition of current comparator therapy
- Gabapentin GR
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase III study
- Phase II study
- A future for Gabapentin GR?
- Forecasts to 2016
- XP13512 gabapentin (Enacarbil)
- Clinical trial data
- Phase IIa
- Phase I
- Marketing factors - improved duration of action
- Patient potential
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Improved efficacy
- Reduced pill burden
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Clinical trial data
- Other GABA modulators
- Retigabine
- Overview of GABA receptor modulators
- CHAPTER 8 MONOAMINE MODULATORS LATE-STAGE ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS
- Overview of monoamine receptor modulators
- Pipeline summary
- Definition of current comparator therapy
- Pristiq (desvenlafaxine)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Ongoing trials: Phase III
- Phase II Venlafaxine studies
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Forecasts to 2016
- Other monoamine modulators
- Bicifadine
- Reboxetine (+)-(S,S)
- F13640
- Late-stage development compounds recently discontinued
- Radafaxine (353162)
- Overview of monoamine receptor modulators
- CHAPTER 9 OTHER LATE-STAGE DRUG ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS
- Overview of other therapies
- Pipeline summary
- Comparative forecasts
- Definition of current comparator therapy
- Fentora (fentanyl buccal transmucosal)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase III study
- Patient potential
- Marketing factors
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Sativex (GW-1000)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Phase III DNP study
- Phase III Allodynia study
- Phase II study
- Ongoing trials
- Marketing potential
- Potential for abuse is real but multiple indication use may offset this
- Patient potential
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Transacin (NGX-4010)
- Drug overview
- Clinical trial data
- Ongoing trials
- Phase III study
- Phase III HIV-associated neuralgia
- Phase II study
- Patient potential
- Marketing factors
- Satisfaction of unmet needs
- Reduced pill burden
- Forecasts to 2016
- Datamonitor drug assessment summary
- Other drugs
- AS-3201
- Botulinum toxin type A-hemagglutinin complex (Dysport)
- Zucapsaicin
- AGN 203818
- Ibudilast (AV411)
- BVT.115959
- 681323
- KDS-2000
- IP 751/CT-3 (ajulemic acid)
- Liposomal galantamine
- TAK-583
- Overview of other therapies
- CHAPTER 10 INNOVATIVE EARLY-STAGE PROJECTS
- Key Phase I and preclinical compounds in neuropathic pain
- Selective sodium channel blockers
- Vanilloid TRPV1 antagonists
- Preclinical trial data
- NGX-1998
- GRC-6211
- SAR-115740
- N-type calcium channel blockers
- Spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation
- Key Phase I and preclinical compounds in neuropathic pain
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Journals
- Websites
- Datamonitor reports
- APPENDIX A
- Methodology
- Datamonitor forecast methodology
- ICD-10 codes
- Product forecasts
- Definition of a standard unit
- Contributing experts
- Biographies
- Methodology
- APPENDIX B
- About Datamonitor
- About Datamonitor Healthcare
- Datamonitor Healthcare' s therapy area capabilities
- About the Disease analysis team
- Disclaimer
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Size of the neuropathic pain market across the 7MM ($m), 2006-2016
- Table 2: Sales forecasts ($m) of key pipeline products in neuropathic pain, 2007-2016
- Table 3: Number of key neuropathic pain drugs by class and phase of development, 2007
- Table 4: Phase II & III R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 5: Abbreviations for neuropathic pain subtypes
- Table 6: The diabetic neuropathic pain patient populations across the 7MMs, 2007
- Table 7: The post herpetic neuralgia patient population across the 7MMs, 2007
- Table 8: The HIV neuropathic pain patient population across the 7MMs, 2007
- Figure 16: Key unmet needs in neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 9: Recommended core outcomes measures for clinical trials of chronic pain treatment efficacy
- Table 10: Key glutamate receptor modulators in the late-stage R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 11: Lyrica; key facts
- Table 12: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting Zenvia' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 13: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting NP-1' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 14: Key ion channel modulators in the late-stage R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 15: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting Vimpat' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 16: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting ralfinamide' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 17: Key GABA modulators in the late-stage R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 18: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting XP13512' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 19: Monoamine modulator in late-stage R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 20: Other drugs in late-stage R&D pipeline for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 21: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting Fentora' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 22: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting Sativex' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 23: Estimated key events, approvals and launch dates impacting Transacin' s revenue forecast, 2007-2016
- Table 24: Key drugs in Phase I development for neuropathic pain, 2007I
- Table 25: Key drugs in preclinical development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Table 26: Neuropathic pain market definition by ICD-10 codes
- Table 27: Datamonitor drug assessment parameters
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Forecast of the neuropathic pain market value across the 7MM, 2007-2016
- Figure 2: Key pipeline drug sales forecasts, 2007- 2016
- Figure 3: Datamonitor drug assessment summary of pipeline therapies in development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 4: Drugs in development for neuropathic pain by class and development stage, 2007
- Figure 5: Pfizer sales by therapeutic area, 2006
- Figure 6: Sales of Neurontin, gabapentin and Lyrica for neuropathic pain ($m), 2003-06
- Figure 7: Historical sales of Lyrica, Neurontin, Cymbalta and generic gabapentin, 2003-06
- Figure 8: Pfizer' s Lyrica and CNS sales 2004-06 ($ billion)
- Figure 9: Eli Lilly sales by therapeutic area, 2006
- Figure 10: Cymbalta all indication sales in the 7MMs, 2003-06 ($m)
- Figure 11: UCB sales by therapeutic area, 2006
- Figure 12: Population of neuropathic pain subtypes in the 7MMs, 2007
- Figure 13: Sales of marketed drugs for neuropathic pain, 2006 ($m)
- Figure 14: Total neuropathic pain sales across the seven major pharmaceutical markets by region, 2003-06
- Figure 15: Total neuropathic pain sales in the 5EU, 2006 ($m)
- Figure 17: Datamonitor drug assessment summary of key glutamate receptor modulators in development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 18: Sales forecasts for glutamate receptor modulators in neuropathic pain across the 7MMs, 2007-2016
- Figure 19: Sales forecast for Zenvia in neuropathic pain across the 7MMs to 2016
- Figure 20: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of Zenvia, 2007
- Figure 21: Sales forecast for NP-1 in neuropathic pain to 2016 across the 7MMs
- Figure 22: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of NP-1, 2007
- Figure 23: Datamonitor drug assessment summary of pipeline ion channel modulators in development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 24: Sales forecasts for ion channel modulators in neuropathic pain across the 7MMs, 2007-2016
- Figure 25: Sales forecast for Vimpat in neuropathic pain to 2016 across the 7MMs
- Figure 26: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of Vimpat in neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 27: Sales forecast for ralfinamide in neuropathic pain to 2016, in the 7MMs
- Figure 28: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of ralfinamide in neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 29: Datamonitor drug assessment summary of pipeline GABA receptor modulators in development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 30: Sales forecasts for GABA modulators in neuropathic pain to 2016 in the 7MMs
- Figure 31: Sales forecast for XP13512 to 2016 in neuropathic pain across the 7MMs
- Figure 32: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of XP13512, 2007
- Figure 33: Datamonitor drug assessment summary other therapies in development for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 34: Sales forecasts for ' Other' drugs in neuropathic pain to 2016 across the 7MMs
- Figure 35: Sales forecast for Fentora in neuropathic pain to 2016 in the 7MMs
- Figure 36: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of Fentora in neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 37: Sales forecast for Sativex in neuropathic pain to 2016 in the 7MMs
- Figure 38: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of Sativex for neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 39: Sales forecast for Transacin in neuropathic pain to 2016 in the 7MMs
- Figure 40: Datamonitor' s competitive positioning analysis of Transacin in neuropathic pain, 2007
- Figure 41: Datamonitor drug assessment summary of neuropathic pain treatments, 2007
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