Genotropin--a Miracle Medicine that Makes Dwarves Grow Tall (China)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Pfizer's Swedish branch Pfizer Strangnas produces Genotropin, a growth hormone used by around 65,000 patients around the world to enable them to grow normally. These patients lack a human growth hormone, and without this drug they would become dwarves as adults. Pfizer Strangnas site leader Simon Orchard says the company eventually may set up distribution and manufacturing operations in China if conditions for doing so remain competitive. He says China and India are potential sites. Orchard says that the patient pool for this drug remains larger than the current tapped field, at around 180,000 worldwide. Production already is expanding at current manufacturing facilities. Orchard compares today's pharmaceutical industry to the electronic and car industries of past decades, when manufacturing moved to Asia in order to remain competitive. (Click here for more