Public Company Edition: 2020 started with two $200m-plus initial public offerings plus five health care-focused special purpose acquisition corporations IPOs. Also, a Pfizer initiative backs three public companies, Fate’s $432m offering led recent FOPOs and Biocon Biologics receives more investment. 

Sun Pharma’s founder and MD shares with Scrip his views on some key big picture issues, including leveraging pandemic-related regulatory experience for urgently needed products, expectations in the US market, the outlook for M&A, and the potential of e-pharmacies in India.

Cipla sees an incremental revenue opportunity of up to $500m for its US franchise by fiscal 2025 and expects to propel growth with strong execution of its complex generics pipeline. The company is also beginning to “lay the blueprint” in China and Brazil, it said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

Dr Reddy’s signals a sharp step up in ambitions at home, propelled by building leadership in 10 therapy segments and an “India-first” approach for specialty products. Uptick in the China business and the potential launch of a Russia-partnered COVID-19 vaccine were other aspects of the business discussed at JPM.

Cipla sees an incremental revenue opportunity of up to $500m for its US franchise by fiscal 2025 and expects to propel growth with strong execution of its complex generics pipeline. The company is also beginning to “lay the blueprint” in China and Brazil, it said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

The new leader at Boehringer Ingelheim India has a full plate and significant expectations riding on her to sustain momentum at one of the fastest-growing foreign pharma firms in the country.