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What's fueling the biotech engine?

Nature Biotechnology volume 25, pages 1097–1104 (2007)Cite this article

A survey of market trends for biotech products shows that only a handful out of more than one hundred biologics have been fueling the double-digit rise in revenues in the sector.

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Figure 1
Figure 2: Top ten categories of biologic drugs in terms of US sales in 2006.
Figure 3: Top 18 companies that comprised the majority of sales of biologic drugs in 2006.
Figure 4: Trends in US sales of recombinant growth factors.
Figure 5: Trends in US sales of mAbs.
Figure 6: Trends in US sales of recombinant hormones.
Figure 7: US sales of recombinant cytokines and blood factors ($ billions).
Figure 8: US sales of recombinant enzymes, recombinant vaccines and nucleic acid therapeutics ($ billions).

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S.A. thanks the affiliated institutions for access to journals and news articles. S.A. also thanks Ozlem Topaloglu (Johns Hopkins), Samuel R. Denmeade (Johns Hopkins), Kevin Fitzpatrick (IMS Health), Nitin Patel (IMS Health) and Chris Francis (IMS Health) for insightful discussions. This manuscript was submitted to Nature Biotechnology in June, 2007.

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