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Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Tufts University S

Measuring Trends in the Development of New Drugs: Time, Costs, Risks and Returns. Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Tufts University SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Spring Meeting Boston, MA, March 19, 2007.

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Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Tufts University S

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  1. Measuring Trends in the Development of New Drugs: Time, Costs, Risks and Returns Joseph A. DiMasi, Ph.D. Director of Economic Analysis Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development Tufts University SLA Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Spring Meeting Boston, MA, March 19, 2007

  2. Agenda • New Drug development times • Risks in new drug development • R&D costs and returns for new drugs • Pace of competitive development • Impact of improvements to the R&D process • Trends in new drug pipelines

  3. New Drug Development Times

  4. Mean U.S. Approval and Clinical Phases forU.S. New Drug Approvals, 1963-2004 Total Phase IND Phase Approval Phase Source: Tufts CSDD, 2006 Points are 3-year moving averages

  5. Clinical and Approval Times Vary Across Therapeutic Classes, 2002-04 12.1 9.8 8.5 7.6 6.9 7.5 8.0 6.3 Source: Tufts CSDD, 2006

  6. New Drug Development Risk

  7. Approval Success Rates for NCEs Also Vary by Therapeutic Class Source: Tufts CSDD Impact Report, 8(3): May/June 2006

  8. Pharmaceutical R&D Productivity

  9. New Drug Approvals Are Not Keeping Pace with Rising R&D Spending R&D Expenditures New Drug Approvals R&D expenditures are adjusted for inflation Source: Tufts CSDD Approved NCE Database, PhRMA, 2005

  10. Recent Productivity Decline in the Drug Industry: Is this a Unique Phenomenon? “In 1960 the trade press of the U.S. drug industry began to refer to the last few years as constituting a “research gap,” commenting that the flow of important new drug discoveries has for some inexplicable reason diminished.” Source: U.S. Senate, Report of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, 87th Congress, 1st Session, “Study of Administered Prices in the Drug Industry,” June 27, 1961, p.136

  11. Pharmaceutical R&D Costs and Returns

  12. Opportunity Cost for Investments • Consider two investment projects, A and B • Both projects require the same out-of-pocket expenditure (say, $400 million) • However, returns to A are realized immediately, but investors must wait 10 years before returns to B are realized • Rational investors would conclude that B is effectively much costlier than A

  13. Out-of-Pocket and Capitalized Costs per Approved Drug Source: DiMasi et al., J Health Economics 2003;22(2):151-185

  14. Pre-approval and Post-approvalR&D Costs per Approved Drug Source: DiMasi et al., J Health Economics 2003;22(2):151-185

  15. Annual Growth Ratesfor Out-of-Pocket R&D Costs Source: DiMasi et al., J Health Economics 2003;22(2):151-185

  16. Mean Number of Subjects in NDAs for NMEs Sources: Boston Consulting Group, 1993; Peck, Food and Drug Law J, 1997; PAREXEL, 2002

  17. Clinical Trial Complexity Index (Phases I-III) Source: DataEdge, 2002

  18. Summary for R&D Costs • R&D costs have grown substantially, even in inflation-adjusted terms • The growth rate for discovery and preclinical development costs has decreased substantially • Conversely, clinical costs have grown at a much more rapid rate • New discovery and development technologies (e.g., genomics) hold the promise of lower costs in the long-run (but perhaps higher costs in the short-run)

  19. Summary for R&D Costs (cont.) • Evidence and conjectures regarding factors affecting growth in clinical costs • More clinical trial subjects • Increased complexity: more procedures per patient • Patient recruitment and retention • Treatments associated with chronic and degenerative diseases • Testing against comparator drugs

  20. Returns to New Drug Development

  21. Present Values of Net Sales and R&D Costfor New Drugs by Sales Decile (millions of 2000 $) Source: Grabowski et al., PharmacoEconomics 2002; 20(Suppl 3):11-29

  22. Biopharmaceutical R&D Costs

  23. Transition Probabilities for Clinical Phases Source: DiMasi and Grabowski, Managerial and Dec Econ 2007, in press

  24. Clinical Development and Approval Times 97.7 90.3 Source: DiMasi and Grabowski, Managerial and Dec Econ 2007, in press

  25. Pre-Approval Out-of-Pocket (cash outlay) and Time Costs per Approved New Biopharmaceutical* * Based on a 30.2% clinical approval success rate ** All R&D costs (basic research and preclinical development) prior to initiation of clinical testing Source: DiMasi and Grabowski, Managerial and Dec Econ 2007, in press

  26. Why Might Biopharma Cost Differ? • Biotech firms may be more nimble and creative (different corporate culture) • Replacement therapies may confront fewer safety issues (more relevant to early biotech era development) • However, biotech firms have less experience in clinical development and in interacting with regulatory authorities • Manufacturing process R&D and production of clinical supplies much more expensive for biopharmaceuticals

  27. Biopharmaceutical and Pharma R&D Costs Compared

  28. Pre-Approval Out-of-Pocket Cost per Approved New Molecule * All R&D costs (basic research and preclinical development) prior to initiation of clinical testing ** Based on a 5-year shift and prior growth rates for the preclinical and clinical periods Source: DiMasi and Grabowski, Managerial and Dec Econ 2007, in press

  29. Pre-Approval Capitalized Cost per Approved New Molecule * All R&D costs (basic research and preclinical development) prior to initiation of clinical testing ** Based on a 5-year shift and prior growth rates for the preclinical and clinical periods Source: DiMasi and Grabowski, Managerial and Dec Econ 2007, in press

  30. The Pace of Competitive Development

  31. Market Exclusivity for First-in-Class has Declined: Mean Time to First Follow-on Approval Source: DiMasi and Paquette, PharmacoEconomics 2004;22(Suppl 2):1-14

  32. Percent of Follow-on Drugs Reaching Clinical Milestone Prior to First-in-Class Drug Reaching Same Milestone Source: DiMasi, Paquette, PharmacoEconomics 2004;22(Suppl 2):1-14

  33. Follow-on Approvals Create Competition Resulting in Price Discounts * Analysis based on FYs 1995-1999. Source: DiMasi, 2000 [http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/drug-papers/dimassi/dimasi-final.htm]

  34. Impact of Improvements in Drug Development Productivity

  35. Cost Reductions from Higher Clinical Success Rates Source: DiMasi, PharmacoEconomics 2002; 20(Suppl 3):1-10

  36. Cost Reductions from Simultaneous Percentage Decreases in All Phase Lengths Source: DiMasi, PharmacoEconomics 2002; 20(Suppl 3):1-10

  37. Trends in Drug Development Pipelines

  38. Clinical Testing Pipelines for Large Pharmaceutical Firms* Have Grown in Recent Years (Phase I Starts per year) * Ten largest pharmaceutical firms Source: Tufts CSDD Impact Report, 8(3): May/June 2006

  39. Trends in New Drug Development Pipelines* by Therapeutic Class * Ten largest pharmaceutical firms Source: Tufts CSDD Impact Report, 8(3): May/June 2006

  40. Large Pharmaceutical Firms* are Increasingly Licensing-in New Drugs * Ten largest pharmaceutical firms Source: Tufts CSDD Impact Report, 8(3): May/June 2006

  41. Conclusions • Drug development has been and still is costly, risky, and lengthy • Periods of market exclusivity have shrunk for first-in-class drugs • The potential payoffs for improvements in the development process are substantial • After a period of decline, more new drugs are now entering clinical testing pipelines

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