Pre-Launch Demand Outstrips Supply For Zydus COVID-19 Vaccine
Confident Of US Saroglitazar Approval For PBC
Executive Summary
Zydus Cadila expects to launch its DNA COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter of fiscal 2022 but it already has more advance purchase orders than it can produce. Meanwhile, the Indian firm is confident of saroglitazar being approved for primary biliary cholangitis in the US, with the NCE also poised to become the largest contributor to India sales in three to five years.
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