DUBLIN, Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBPH) ("Theravance Biopharma") today highlighted the filing of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of Trelegy Ellipta, the triple combination therapy of fluticasone furoate, umeclidinium, and vilanterol (FF/UMEC/VI) in a single ELLIPTA® inhaler, for an expanded indication for the maintenance treatment of airflow obstruction and reduction of exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). If this sNDA is approved, the labeled indication for Trelegy Ellipta would include a wider population of patients with COPD who are at risk of an exacerbation and require triple therapy.
Trelegy Ellipta is a product in which Theravance Biopharma has an economic interest in future payments that may be made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) or one of its affiliates pursuant to its agreements with Innoviva (formerly Theravance, Inc.). Theravance Biopharma is entitled to receive an 85% economic interest in the royalties paid by GSK on worldwide net sales. Those royalties are upward-tiering from 6.5% to 10%, resulting in cash flows to Theravance Biopharma of approximately 5.5% to 8.5% of worldwide net sales of Trelegy Ellipta. Theravance Biopharma is not responsible for any costs related to Trelegy Ellipta.
Trelegy Ellipta is the first treatment to provide a combination of three molecules in a single inhaler that only needs to be taken once a day. The unique combination treatment includes: FF, an inhaled corticosteroid; UMEC, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA); and VI, a long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA). This combination has been formulated to be delivered once-daily in GSK's simple-to-use delivery device, the ELLIPTA® dry powder inhaler.
In a press release dated November 23, 2017, GSK and Innoviva announced the submission of data from the landmark IMPACT study to the FDA to support an expanded label for Trelegy Ellipta. In the IMPACT study, Trelegy Ellipta showed superiority to the dual combination therapies Anoro Ellipta and Relvar/Breo Ellipta on multiple endpoints, including exacerbation rates, lung function and health related quality of life.
Trelegy Ellipta is approved for use in the US for the long-term, once-daily, maintenance treatment of COPD patients who are receiving Breo (FF/VI) and require additional bronchodilation or who are receiving Breo and Incruse (UMEC). If approved, the sNDA would broaden this indication.
About Theravance Biopharma
Theravance Biopharma is a diversified biopharmaceutical company with the core purpose of creating medicines that help improve the lives of patients suffering from serious illness.
Our pipeline of internally discovered product candidates includes potential best-in-class medicines to address the unmet needs of patients being treated for serious conditions primarily in the acute care setting. VIBATIV® (telavancin), our first commercial product, is a once-daily dual-mechanism antibiotic approved in the U.S., Europe and certain other countries for certain difficult-to-treat infections. Revefenacin (TD-4208) is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) being developed as a potential once-daily, nebulized treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our neprilysin (NEP) inhibitor program is designed to develop selective NEP inhibitors for the treatment of a range of major cardiovascular and renal diseases, including acute and chronic heart failure, hypertension and chronic kidney diseases, such as diabetic nephropathy. Our research efforts are focused in the areas of inflammation and immunology, with the goal of designing medicines that provide targeted drug delivery to tissues in the lung and gastrointestinal tract in order to maximize patient benefit and minimize risk. The first program to emerge from this research is designed to develop intestinally restricted pan-Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors for the treatment of a range of inflammatory intestinal diseases.
In addition, we have an economic interest in future payments that may be made by Glaxo Group Limited or one of its affiliates (GSK) pursuant to its agreements with Innoviva, Inc. relating to certain programs, including Trelegy Ellipta (the combination of fluticasone furoate, umeclidinium, and vilanterol in a single ELLIPTA® inhaler, previously referred to as the Closed Triple), currently approved in the US and Europe for the treatment of appropriate COPD patients and in development for the treatment of COPD in several other countries. The product is also currently in development for the treatment of asthma.
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Head of Investor Relations
650-808-4045
investor.relations@theravance.com
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