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December 2, 2015
Excerpt of Transcript of Remarks by Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research & Development at Pfizer Inc., at the 27th Annual Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference, posted December 2, 2015
DECEMBER 02, 2015 / 2:00PM, PFEPfizer Inc at Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference
Richard PurkissPiper JaffrayAnalyst
Okay, just briefly I notice were running short on time, but perhaps you can just share some thoughts on Allergans pipeline, what you find particularly interesting.
Mikael DolstenPfizer Inc.President, Worldwide Research & Development
Yes, I think the industry as a whole has many companies that are investing in R&D and providing product pipelines. So we think that some consolidation will make the industry more efficient. We certainly have seen Pfizer starting to have growth based on the PIXEL brands that youve alluded to.
Allergan is a Company that have accumulated a very robust, durable, marketed and pipeline product portfolio. So we see a combination of these companies to have an opportunity to aspire for growth across many therapeutic areas. I can see in some therapeutic areas where combining the two will give a very impressive portfolio.
Let me mention one area where we have been a significant investor in research and development thats newer science. And Allergan obviously have a long history with Namenda Namzaric franchise and some more pipeline oriented products, like I mentioned, include, and this is from their R&D day
Richard PurkissPiper JaffrayAnalyst
No, sure. Yes, no, no.
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DECEMBER 02, 2015 / 2:00PM, PFEPfizer Inc at Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference
Mikael DolstenPfizer Inc.President, Worldwide Research & Development
they spoke about and obviously more detailed question should come to the Allergan colleagues. Vraylar, which is a typical antipsychotic drug approved for schizophrenia and the mania bipolar disease. Whats interesting is that it shares some features with Abilify in that its a D2 partial agonist.
But it also has picked up D3 and that may be the reason why Allergan communicated interesting data on negative symptoms which could be a unique opportunity for this drug. And it behaved very well also on tolerability aspects such as metabolic function, so thats, I think, an interesting drug.
Richard PurkissPiper JaffrayAnalyst
For psychiatrists as well. I mean negative so thats the big unmet need, really, isnt it, negative symptoms?
Mikael DolstenPfizer Inc.President, Worldwide Research & Development
It is a huge unmet need and it makes why many of these patients are unable to engage socially in society and are really hampered after controlling the positive symptoms. Another area, treatment resistant depression, I think is tremendous unmet need and the drug rapastinel which acts on the NMDA receptor pathway is for initially for IV administration. It belongs to a class that had rapid onset of therapeutic benefit.
And so far what Allergan disclosed is that the drug has rapid beneficial effects seen in a small Phase 2 study while not having what has been associated with other candidates in this space, psychotropic or hallucinogenic effect. So that could be also a very transformative opportunity for refractory depression.
We have a significant effort to grow our presence in gastrointestinal disease. Allergan has a strong history in inflammatory bowel disease with an asset called Delzicol and more recently in irritable bowel symptoms both for the chronic constipation and diarrhea forms.
They really shared at R&D day also relamorelin which is a ghrelin cyclic peptidomimetic for diabetic gastroparesis, a condition many diabetes patients suffer from, inability optimally empty the gastric organ and thereby getting a lot of issue with nausea, vomiting and overall poor life quality. So thats another very intriguing opportunity.
And finally, of course, they have the new businesses in the sense of ophthalmology and aesthetics that would be a very nice expansion into what our businesses. And Im quite impressed with what theyve done with both its lifecycle management and I think there is another opportunity in aesthetics with Kybella and in ophthalmology, I think we have tanezumab which works on the NGF pathway.
They actually have an NGF active drug that is licensed from Mimetogen, MIM-D3, that acts locally in the eye for dry eye to induce mucin production and reduce the symptoms.
So I just gave a couple of examples that I think are innovative drugs that could really advance care in many of these areas, would complement what Pfizer has. And I think that potential combination of these two companies could be very powerful. It will have a pipeline of more than 100 Phase 2 registration drugs of which more than 60 are in Phase 3 registration. So really an unprecedented powerhouse of R&D.
Richard PurkissPiper JaffrayAnalyst
I think were out of time. Anyway, thank you very much, Mikael.
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