SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND and HATFIELD, UK, 26th March, 2020 – Ewopharma, a pharmaceutical marketing company and Eisai Europe Ltd., a leading global research and development-based pharmaceutical company are pleased to announce that on 24th February 2020 Ewopharma acquired the rights to commercialise Lenvima® (lenvatinib) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Ewopharma is commercialising lenvatinib in nine CEE countries within the European Union (Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovenia) within the product’s approved indications of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).1
Ewopharma is responsible for all aspects of pricing, reimbursement, marketing and distribution. Eisai is supplying the product and also providing significant training and support.
Alain Staub, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Ewopharma comments: “It is a great pleasure for us to expand our existing collaboration with Eisai to include lenvatinib. This means we can give more patients in the CEE region access to much needed therapy, especially to those suffering from metastatic thyroid carcinoma and unrespectable hepatocellular cancer. We believe lenvatinib provides effective treatment and has an established safety profile, and we hope that many patients will be able to benefit from its potential.”
In 2017 Ewopharma obtained the rights to commercialise Eisai’s Targretin® (bexarotene) in Hungary and Poland, and this contract with Eisai has now been extended so that bexarotene is available in the rest of the CEE countries (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia).
This partnership demonstrates Eisai’s commitment to novel collaborative working practices and underscores Eisai’s human health care mission of giving first thought to patients and their families and to increasing the benefits health care provides.