The
global programmed death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) inhibitors
market is valued at an estimated $4,926.4 million in 2016, and it is expected
to grow at a CAGR of 23.4% during 2017 - 2025.
The
growth of the global market is largely driven by the increased investment and
funding, strong pipeline, and improved safety and efficacy. BGB-A317, a Phase I
therapeutic candidate of BeiGene Ltd., gained $75 million funding to continued
development of targeted oncology candidate. PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors are
applicable to a wider range of tumor types such as advanced or metastatic
non-small cell lung cancer, renal cancer, melanoma and others. These inhibitors
lower the rate of severe toxicities and immune-mediated side-effects. These are
also convenient to administer, and yield a good response rate of any
single-agent immunotherapy. This creates huge traction in pharmaceutical
industry to develop PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors for treatment of different types
of cancer.
PD-1
and PD-L1 inhibitors are highly growing immunotherapies that are being used in
oncology therapy area. The pipeline of PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors is enriched
with 47 drugs and there are approximately 245 active clinical studies.
Currently, durvalumab from Astrazeneca and atezolizumab from Roche are among
the most promising molecules in the pipeline, in terms of efficacy and safety.
These molecules are in Phase III stage and expected to be launched in the
coming years for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. There are many
drugs in early stage of pipeline; thus, making PD1
and PDL1 inhibitors market very lucrative.
Among the different
marketed PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitor drugs, the largest revenue globally was
generated from the sale of Opdivo in 2016. The global demand of Tecentriq is
expected to witness high growth, primarily driven by the lack of approved
competitor PD-L1 inhibitors drugs and high prevalence of urothelioma cancer.
Some of the key players operating in the global market include Merck & Co., Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, AstraZeneca plc, Pfizer Inc., F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Novartis AG, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Merck KGaA.
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