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Gewinn-Wachstumsrate 5 J.
1,60 %
Börsenwert
6,31 Mrd. $
Langfristige Schulden
2,11 Mrd. $
Short Interest
6,37 %
Jahresabschluss
06.03.2026
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83,00 $
5.64%
Letztes Update: 20.12.2025
Analysten: 14
Höchstes Kursziel 118,00 $
Durchschnittliches Kursziel 83,00 $
Niedrigstes Kursziel 55,00 $
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Was macht PTC Therapeutics?
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company.
The company discovers, develops, and commercializes clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to children and adults living with rare disorders. The company’s ability to innovate to identify new therapies and to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust and diversified pipeline of transformative medicines.
The company’s strategy is to leverage its strong scientific and clini...
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company.
The company discovers, develops, and commercializes clinically differentiated medicines that provide benefits to children and adults living with rare disorders. The company’s ability to innovate to identify new therapies and to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust and diversified pipeline of transformative medicines.
The company’s strategy is to leverage its strong scientific and clinical expertise and global commercial infrastructure to bring therapies to patients.
Pipeline
The company has a diversified therapeutic portfolio that includes several commercial products and product candidates in various stages of development, including discovery, research and clinical stages, focused on the development of new treatments for multiple therapeutic areas for rare diseases relating to neurology and metabolism.
Global Commercial Footprint
Global DMD Franchise – The company has two products, Translarna (ataluren) and Emflaza (deflazacort), for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD, a rare, life-threatening disorder. Translarna has conditional marketing authorization in the European Economic Area, or EEA, for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or nmDMD, in ambulatory patients aged two years and older. In January 2024, the Committee of Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, of the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, issued a negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following a re-examination procedure. In May 2024, the European Commission, or EC, decided not to adopt the CHMP’s negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna and returned such opinion to the CHMP for re-evaluation. In June 2024, following the EC’s request for re-review, the CHMP issued a negative opinion on the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. On October 18, 2024, the CHMP maintained its negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following the requested reexamination procedure. In accordance with EMA regulations, the EC has 67 days from the date of issuance to adopt the opinion. At this time, the EC has not yet adopted the negative opinion. If the EC adopts the negative opinion, Translarna would no longer have marketing authorization in the member states of the EEA. The marketing authorization for Translarna remains in effect, pending the EC’s potential adoption of the negative opinion. The company is exploring other potential mechanisms by which the company may provide Translarna to nmDMD patients in the EEA if the negative opinion is adopted by the EC. Translarna also has marketing authorization in Russia for the treatment of nmDMD in patients aged two years and older, and in Brazil for the treatment of nmDMD in ambulatory patients two years and older and for continued treatment of patients that become non-ambulatory, as well as in various other countries as described below. Emflaza is approved in the United States for the treatment of DMD in patients two years and older.
Upstaza (eladocagene exuparvovec) / Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec-tneq) – Upstaza, a gene therapy for the treatment of Aromatic L-Amino Decarboxylase, or AADC, deficiency, a rare central nervous system, or CNS, disorder is approved for the treatment of AADC deficiency for patients 18 months and older within the EEA and the United Kingdom. In November 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, granted accelerated approval for this gene therapy for the treatment of AADC deficiency in the United States. This gene therapy is marketed with the brand name Kebilidi in the United States.
Tegsedi (inotersen) and Waylivra (volanesorsen) – The company holds the rights for the commercialization of Tegsedi and Waylivra for the treatment of rare diseases in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean pursuant to the company’s Collaboration and License Agreement with a subsidiary of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Ionis. Tegsedi has received marketing authorization in the United States, European Union, or EU, and Brazil for the treatment of stage 1 or stage 2 polyneuropathy in adult patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, or hATTR amyloidosis. Waylivra is approved in Brazil for the treatment of familial chylomicronemia syndrome, or FCS, and familial partial lipodystrophy, or FPL.
Evrysdi (risdiplam) – Evrysdi, a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, was approved by the FDA for the treatment of SMA in adults and children of all ages and by the EC for the treatment of 5q SMA in patients of all ages with a clinical diagnosis of SMA Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 or with one to four SMN2 copies. Evrysdi has also received marketing authorization for the treatment of SMA in over 100 countries. Evrysdi is a product of the company’s SMA program and the company’s collaboration with F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd. and Hoffman-La Roche Inc., which the company refers to collectively as Roche, and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation, or SMA Foundation.
Diversified Development Pipeline
Sepiapterin – Sepiapterin is the company’s product candidate for the treatment of phenylketonuria, or PKU. In May 2023, the company announced that the primary endpoint was achieved in the company’s registration-directed Phase 3 trial for sepiapterin for phenylketonuria, or PKU. In March 2024, the company submitted a marketing authorization application, or MAA, to the EMA for sepiapterin for the treatment of PKU in the EEA, which was validated and accepted for review by the EMA in May 2024. The company expects an opinion from the CHMP in the second quarter of 2025. In July 2024, the company submitted a new drug application, or NDA, to the FDA for sepiapterin for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with PKU, including the full spectrum of ages and disease subtypes, in the United States. In September 2024, the FDA accepted for filing the NDA, with a target regulatory action date of July 29, 2025. The company also made regulatory submissions for sepiapterin for the treatment of PKU in Brazil in the third quarter of 2024 and in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a regulatory decision in Japan expected in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Splicing Platform – In addition to the company’s SMA program, the company’s splicing platform also includes PTC518, which is being developed for the treatment of Huntington’s disease, or HD. The company initiated a Phase 2 study of PTC518 for the treatment of HD in the first quarter of 2022, which consists of an initial 12-week placebo-controlled phase focused on safety, pharmacology and pharmacodynamic effects followed by a nine-month placebo-controlled phase focused on PTC518 biomarker effect. In June 2023, the company announced interim data from the 12-week placebo-controlled phase of the Phase 2 study of PTC518. In June 2024, the company announced interim results from the full Phase 2 study of PTC518. In September 2024, the FDA granted Fast Track designation to the PTC518 program for the treatment of HD. In December 2024, the company held a Type C meeting with the FDA to discuss whether huntingtin protein lowering could be considered a surrogate endpoint for accelerated approval of PTC518. The FDA was aligned on the scientific rationale and asked to see additional data supportive of an association between huntingtin protein lowering and changes in clinical outcome scores. The company expects to provide results from the Phase 2 study of PTC518 for the treatment of HD in the second quarter of 2025. In November 2024, the company entered into a License and Collaboration Agreement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, or Novartis, relating to the company’s PTC518 program, or the Novartis Agreement. Pursuant to the Novartis Agreement, the company will continue to conduct the ongoing Phase 2A Clinical Trial and the ongoing open label extension, or OLE, Clinical Trial pursuant to its existing development plan, with the goal of transitioning the ongoing OLE Clinical Trial to Novartis within 12 months after the effective date of the Novartis Agreement. Novartis will be responsible for all other development of licensed compounds and licensed products and the manufacture and commercialization of licensed compounds and licensed products worldwide.
Inflammation and Ferroptosis Platform – The most advanced molecule in the company’s inflammation and ferroptosis platform is vatiquinone. The company announced topline results from a registration-directed Phase 3 trial of vatiquinone in children and young adults with Friedreich’s ataxia, or FA, called MOVE-FA, in May 2023. While the trial did not meet its primary endpoint, vatiquinone treatment did demonstrate significant benefit on key disease subscales, including the upright stability subscale, as well as on other disease relevant endpoints. In the first quarter of 2024, the company met with the FDA, who expressed willingness to review an NDA for vatiquinone for the treatment of FA, based on the MOVE-FA trial as well as data from the ongoing OLE study following the MOVE-FA trial, potentially allowing for the submission of an NDA in late 2024. In October 2024, the company announced that the pre-specified endpoint for two different FA long-term extension studies was met, with statistically significant evidence of durable treatment benefit on disease progression. In December 2024, the company submitted an NDA to the FDA for vatiquinone for the treatment of children and adults living with FA. In February 2025, the FDA accepted for filing the NDA and granted priority review with a target regulatory action date of August 19, 2025.
Pre-clinical Pipeline
The company continues to invest in its pre-clinical product pipeline by committing resources to research and development programs to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need. The company’s pre-clinical efforts are focused on two scientific platforms: splicing and inflammation and ferroptosis, two areas of science where PTC has significant expertise.
Global Commercial Footprint
Global DMD Franchise
Marketing Authorization Matters
Translarna for the treatment of Nonsense Mutation Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
European Economic Area
The company received marketing authorization from the EC in August 2014 for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD in ambulatory patients aged five years and older in the member states of the EEA, subject to annual renewal and other conditions. In July 2018, the EC approved a label-extension request to the company’s marketing authorization for Translarna in the EEA to include patients from two to up to five years of age. In July 2020, the EC approved the removal of the statement ‘efficacy has not been demonstrated in non-ambulatory patients’ from the indication statement for Translarna.
The marketing authorization is subject to annual review and renewal by the EC following reassessment by the EMA of the benefit-risk balance of continued authorization, which the company refers to as the annual EMA reassessment. In September 2022, the company submitted a Type II variation to the EMA to support conversion of the conditional marketing authorization for Translarna to a standard marketing authorization, which included a report on the placebo-controlled trial of Study 041 and data from the open-label extension as further described below. In February 2023, the company also submitted an annual marketing authorization renewal request to the EMA. In September 2023, the CHMP gave a negative opinion on the conversion of the conditional marketing authorization to full marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD and a negative opinion on the renewal of the existing conditional marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. In January 2024, the CHMP issued a negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following a re-examination procedure. In May 2024, the EC decided not to adopt the CHMP’s negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna and returned such opinion to the CHMP for re-evaluation. In June 2024, following the EC’s request for re-review, the CHMP issued a negative opinion on the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. In October 2024, the CHMP maintained its negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following the requested reexamination procedure. In accordance with EMA regulations, the EC has 67 days from the date of issuance to adopt the opinion. At this time, the EC has not yet adopted the negative opinion. If the EC adopts the negative opinion, Translarna would no longer have marketing authorization in the member states of the EEA. The marketing authorization for Translarna remains in effect, pending the EC’s potential adoption of the negative opinion. The company is exploring other potential mechanisms by which the company may provide Translarna to nmDMD patients in the EEA if the negative opinion is adopted by the EC.
Marketing authorization is required in order for the company to engage in any EEA-wide commercialization of Translarna in the EEA, which allows the company to participate in pricing and reimbursement negotiations, on a country-by-country basis with each country in the EEA. Individual countries in the EEA have the ability to make Translarna available under early access programs, or EAP programs, or through similar styled programs. There is substantial risk that if the EC adopts the CHMP’s negative opinion or the company is otherwise unable to renew the company’s EEA marketing authorization during any annual renewal cycle or the company is unable to identify other potential mechanisms in which the company may provide Translarna to nmDMD patients in the EEA should the CHMP’s negative opinion be adopted by the EC or the company’s product label is materially restricted, the company would lose all, or a significant portion of, the company’s ability to generate revenue from sales of Translarna in the EEA and other territories.
As the marketing authorization holder, the company is obligated to monitor the use of Translarna for nmDMD to detect, assess and take required action with respect to information that could impact the safety profile of Translarna and to report this information, through pharmacovigilance submissions, to the EMA. Following its assessment of these submissions, the EMA can recommend to the EC actions ranging from the continued maintenance of the marketing authorization to its withdrawal.
The United States
Translarna is an investigational new drug in the United States. During the first quarter of 2017, the company filed an NDA for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD over protest with the FDA. In October 2017, the Office of Drug Evaluation I of the FDA issued a Complete Response Letter, or CRL, for the NDA, stating that it was unable to approve the application in its current form. In response, the company filed a formal dispute resolution request with the Office of New Drugs of the FDA. In February 2018, the Office of New Drugs of the FDA denied the company’s appeal of the CRL. In its response, the Office of New Drugs recommended a possible path forward for the company’s ataluren NDA submission based on the accelerated approval pathway. This would involve a re-submission of an NDA containing the current data on effectiveness and safety of ataluren with new data to be generated on dystrophin production in nmDMD patients’ muscles. The company followed the FDA’s recommendation and collected, using newer technologies via procedures and methods that the company designed, such dystrophin data in a new study, Study 045, and announced the results of Study 045 in February 2021. Study 045 did not meet its pre-specified primary endpoint. In June 2022, the company announced top-line results from the placebo-controlled trial of Study 041, which was the company’s 18 months, placebo-controlled trial, followed by an 18 months open label extension, of Translarna in the treatment of ambulatory patients with nmDMD aged five years or older. Following this announcement, the company submitted a meeting request to the FDA to gain clarity on the regulatory pathway for a potential re-submission of an NDA for Translarna. The FDA provided initial written feedback that Study 041 does not provide substantial evidence of effectiveness to support NDA re-submission. The company held a Type C meeting with the FDA in the fourth quarter of 2023 to discuss the totality of Translarna data. Based on feedback from the FDA, the company re-submitted the NDA in July 2024, based on the results from Study 041 and from the company’s international drug registry study for nmDMD patients receiving Translarna. In October 2024, the FDA accepted for review the resubmission of the NDA for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. As this was an NDA resubmission following a CRL to the NDA which was filed over protest in 2016, the FDA is not obligated to follow the review timelines under Prescription Drug User Free Act, or PDUFA, guidelines and an action date has not been provided.
Other Territories
Translarna received marketing authorization for the treatment of nmDMD in Israel and South Korea in 2015, Chile in 2018, Brazil in 2019 and Russia in 2020, in addition to approvals from other countries, and these licenses are active. Many territories outside of the EEA, including Israel, South Korea and Chile, reference and depend on the determinations by the EMA when considering the grant of a marketing authorization. It is possible that the company would not be able to maintain its marketing authorizations in these regions in the event the EMA decides not to renew or otherwise modifies or withdraws the company’s marketing authorization in the EEA. In addition, Translarna is authorized in the United Kingdom and is undergoing a national assessment. The marketing authorization for Translarna in Brazil and Russia are subject to renewal every five years. The company has been pursuing and expect to continue to pursue marketing authorizations for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD in other regions.
Emflaza for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the United States
Emflaza, both in tablet and suspension form, received approval from the FDA in February 2017 as a treatment for DMD in patients five years of age and older in the United States. In June 2019, the FDA approved the company’s label expansion request for Emflaza for patients two to five years of age. The company estimate that there are between approximately 10,000 and 15,000 DMD patients in the United States.
Emflaza received a seven-year marketing exclusivity period in the United States for its approved indications, commencing on the date of FDA approval, under the provisions of the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, or the Orphan Drug Act. The company has previously relied on this exclusivity period to commercialize Emflaza in the United States. Emflaza’s seven-year period of orphan drug exclusivity related to the treatment of DMD in patients five years and older expired in February 2024. The company expects the expiration of this orphan drug exclusivity to have a significant negative impact on Emflaza net product revenue. Emflaza’s orphan drug exclusivity related to the treatment of DMD in patients two years of age to less than five expires in June 2026.
Upstaza / Kebilidi
Upstaza/Kebilidi is an adeno-associated virus, or AAV, gene therapy for the treatment of AADC deficiency, a rare CNS disorder arising from reductions in the enzyme AADC that results from mutations in the dopa decarboxylase gene. In July 2022, the EC approved Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency for patients 18 months and older within the EEA. In November 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approved Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency for patients 18 months and older within the United Kingdom. On November 13, 2024, the FDA granted accelerated approval of the company’s gene therapy for the treatment of children and adults with AADC deficiency, which is marketed with the brand name Kebilidi in the United States. The company is obligated to complete certain post-marketing requirements in connection with the FDA's approval, including clinical safety studies.
AADC is the enzyme responsible for the conversion of L-dopa to dopamine. Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter that acts within the striatum (caudate and putamen), a component of the brain’s deep grey matter, to modulate output of neurons that project to the motor and premotor cortices of the brain that plan and execute normal motor function. Dopamine is required in the brain for humans to develop and maintain proper motor function.
AADC deficiency is a monogenic disorder of neurotransmitter synthesis that manifests in young children and most commonly results in profound developmental delay, often seen as complete arrest of motor development. AADC deficiency generally causes the inability to develop motor control, resulting in breathing, feeding, and swallowing problems, frequent hospitalizations, and the need for life-long care. On average, patients with AADC deficiency die in the first decade of life due to profound motor dysfunction and secondary complications such as choking, hypoxia, and pneumonia. No treatment options are available for the underlying cause of the disorder, and care is limited to palliative options with significant burden on caregivers.
The prevalence of AADC deficiency has been estimated to be approximately 5,000 patients worldwide, with a live-birth incidence of up to 1 in 40,000 worldwide. While several diagnostic tests for AADC deficiency are available, the condition remains largely undiagnosed or misdiagnosed and may be confused with cerebral palsy.
Patients are treated with Upstaza/Kebilidi during a single procedure in which the gene therapy is administered directly to the region of the brain, called the putamen, where dopamine is made and released. The targeted micro-dosing approach administering small amounts of gene therapy directly to focal regions of affected cells in the putamen has the benefit of keeping the supply requirements for materials low, improving access of the therapeutic gene to key cells, potentially limiting immune and complement-mediated responses and reducing the risk of off-target uptake and excretion of the gene therapy by the liver and kidneys.
Upstaza and Kebilidi for the treatment of AADC deficiency has orphan drug designation in the EU and United States, respectively. Due to its orphan medicinal product designation by the EMA, the company relies on a ten-year exclusive marketing period for Upstaza in the EEA, which may potentially be extended for two additional years if the company receives approval for a pediatric exclusivity incentive. Kebilidi has a twelve-year exclusive marketing period in the United States for the approved indication, commencing on the date of FDA approval, under the provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009, or BPCIA, as well as a concurrent seven-year exclusive marketing period, under the provisions of the Orphan Drug Act. The company relies on the twelve-year BPCIA regulatory exclusivity and concurrent seven-year Orphan Drug Act exclusivity to commercialize Kebilidi in the United States, which the company expects to expire in November 2036 and November 2031, respectively.
Tegsedi and Waylivra
In August 2018 the company entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement with Akcea Therapeutics, Inc., or Akcea, a subsidiary of Ionis for the commercialization by the company of Tegsedi, Waylivra and products containing those compounds in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, or the PTC Territory.
Tegsedi
Tegsedi, a product of Ionis’ proprietary antisense technology, is an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, inhibitor of human transthyretin, or TTR, production. Tegsedi is the world’s first RNA-targeted therapeutic to treat patients with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, or hATTR amyloidosis. In October 2019, it received marketing authorization from ANVISA, the Brazilian health regulatory authority, for the treatment of stage 1 or stage 2 polyneuropathy in adult patients with hATTR amyloidosis in Brazil. The company’s marketing authorization for Tegsedi in Brazil is subject to renewal every five years. It has also received marketing authorization in the United States and EU for the same indication.
hATTR amyloidosis is a progressive, systemic and fatal inherited disease caused by the abnormal formation of the TTR protein and aggregation of TTR amyloid deposits in various tissues and organs throughout the body, including in peripheral nerves, heart, intestinal tract, eyes, kidneys, central nervous system, thyroid and bone marrow. The progressive accumulation of TTR amyloid deposits in these tissues and organs leads to sensory, motor and autonomic dysfunction often having debilitating effects on multiple aspects of a patient’s life. Patients with hATTR amyloidosis often present with a mixed phenotype and experience overlapping symptoms of polyneuropathy and cardiomyopathy.
Ultimately, hATTR amyloidosis generally results in death within three to fifteen years of symptom onset. Therapeutic options for the treatment of patients with hATTR amyloidosis are limited and there are no disease-modifying drugs approved for the disease. There are an estimated 50,000 patients with hATTR amyloidosis worldwide, including approximately 6,000 patients with polyneuropathic hATTR amyloidosis in Latin America.
Waylivra
Waylivra is an ASO that has received marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of FCS, subject to certain conditions. The United States and EU regulatory agencies have granted orphan drug designation to Waylivra for the treatment of FCS. In connection with the marketing approval for Waylivra in the EU, the EC is requiring Akcea to provide results of a study based on a registry of patients to investigate how blood checks and adjustments to frequency of injections are carried out in practice and how well they work to prevent thrombocytopenia and bleeding in FCS patients taking Waylivra. In August 2021, ANVISA approved Waylivra as the first treatment for FCS in Brazil. The company’s marketing authorization for Waylivra in Brazil is subject to renewal every five years.
Additionally, the company received approval of Waylivra for the treatment of FPL in Brazil in December 2022. FPL is a rare genetic metabolic disease characterized by selective, progressive loss of body fat (adipose tissue) from various areas of the body leading to ectopic fat deposition in liver and muscle and development of insulin resistance, diabetes, dyslipidemia and fatty liver disease. Individuals with FPL often have reduced subcutaneous fat in the arms and legs and the head and trunk regions may or may not have loss of fat. Conversely, affected individuals may also have excess subcutaneous fat accumulation in other areas of the body, especially the neck, face and intra-abdominal regions.
Evrysdi
Evrysdi was approved by the FDA in August 2020 for the treatment of SMA in adults and children two months and older and by the EC in March 2021 for the treatment of 5q SMA in patients two months and older with a clinical diagnosis of SMA Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 or with one to four SMN2 copies. Evrysdi has also received marketing authorization for the treatment of SMA in over 100 countries. In May 2022, the FDA approved a label expansion for Evrysdi to include infants under two months old with SMA. In August 2023, the EC approved an extension of the Evrysdi marketing authorization to include infants under two months old in the EU. Evrysdi is a product of the company’s SMA program and the company’s collaboration with Roche and the SMA Foundation.
SMA is a genetic neuromuscular disease characterized by muscle wasting and weakness. The disease generally manifests early in life. SMA is caused by mutation or deletion of the Survival of Motor Neuron 1, or SMN1, gene that encodes the survival of motor neuron, or SMN, protein. The SMN protein is critical to the health and survival of the nerve cells in the spinal cord responsible for muscle contraction. A second gene, Survival of Motor Neuron 2, or SMN2, is very similar to SMN1, contains a T nucleotide at position 6 in exon 7 and produces low, insufficient levels of functional SMN protein due to alternative splicing of exon 7. According to the SMA Foundation, SMA is the leading genetic cause of death in infants and toddlers. Approximately 1 in 10,000 children is born with the disease. The company estimates that there are between 20,000 to 30,000 children and adults living with SMA in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Diversified Development Pipeline
The company’s pipeline includes a number of programs at various stages of development including sepiapterin, PTC518 and other programs from the company’s splicing and inflammation and ferroptosis platforms. Additionally, the company has ongoing clinical studies of its commercial product for maintaining authorizations and enabling additional authorizations.
Sepiapterin
Sepiapterin is a precursor to intracellular tetrahydrobiopterin, which is a critical enzymatic cofactor involved in metabolism and synthesis of numerous metabolic products. Sepiapterin has been pursued as a possible treatment for orphan metabolic diseases associated with defects in the tetrahydrobiopterin biochemical pathways, including PKU. PKU is an inborn error of metabolism caused predominantly by mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase gene resulting in toxic buildup of the amino acid phenylalanine, or Phe, in the brain, and if left untreated, severe and irreversible disabilities, such as permanent intellectual disability, seizures, delayed development, behavioral problems and possibly psychiatric disorders can occur. There are approximately 58,000 PKU patients globally. In May 2023, the company announced that the primary endpoint was achieved in the company’s registration-directed Phase 3 trial for sepiapterin for PKU. The primary endpoint of the study was the achievement of statistically-significant reduction in blood Phe level. The primary analysis population included those patients who have a greater than 30% reduction in blood Phe levels during the Part 1 run-in phase of the trial. Sepiapterin demonstrated Phe level reduction of approximately 63% in the overall primary analysis population and Phe level reduction of approximately 69% in the subset for classical PKU patients. Additionally, sepiapterin was well tolerated with no serious adverse events. Following the placebo-controlled study, patients were eligible to enroll in a long-term open-label study, which is still ongoing and will evaluate long-term safety, durability and Phe tolerance. In March 2024, the company submitted an MAA to the EMA for sepiapterin for the treatment of PKU in the EEA, which was validated and accepted for review by the EMA in May 2024. The company expects an opinion from the CHMP in the second quarter of 2025. In July 2024, the company submitted an NDA to the FDA for sepiapterin for the treatment of pediatric and adult patients with PKU, including the full spectrum of ages and disease subtypes, in the United States. In September 2024, the FDA accepted for filing the NDA, with a target regulatory action date of July 29, 2025. The company also made regulatory submissions for sepiapterin for the treatment of PKU in Brazil in the third quarter of 2024, and in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2024, with a regulatory decision in Japan expected in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Splicing Platform
The company’s splicing platform focuses on the development of innovative therapies for diseases of unmet medical need that may be ameliorated through the regulation of pre-mRNA splicing.
In addition to Evrysdi and the company’s SMA program, the company’s splicing platform also includes PTC518, which is being developed for the treatment of HD. HD is a neurodegenerative and progressive brain disorder caused by a toxic gain-of-function triplet repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene resulting in uncontrolled movements and cognitive loss. There are no disease-modifying therapies approved to delay the onset or slow the progression of HD. There are approximately 135,000 HD patients globally. PTC518 is an orally bioavailable molecule with broad central nervous system and systemic distribution that has been designed to reduce huntingtin protein expression with high selectivity and specificity. The company announced the results from its Phase 1 study of PTC518 in healthy volunteers in September 2021 demonstrating dose-dependent lowering of huntingtin messenger ribonucleic acid and protein levels, that PTC518 efficiently crosses blood brain barrier at significant levels and that PTC518 was well tolerated. The company initiated a Phase 2 study of PTC518 for the treatment of HD in the first quarter of 2022, which consists of an initial 12-week placebo-controlled phase focused on safety, pharmacology and pharmacodynamic effects followed by a nine-month placebo-controlled phase focused on PTC518 biomarker effect. In June 2023, the company announced interim data from the 12-week placebo-controlled phase of the Phase 2 study of PTC518. The study demonstrated dose-dependent lowering of huntingtin, or HTT, protein levels in peripheral blood cells, reaching an approximate mean 30% reduction in mutant HTT levels at the 10mg dose level. In addition, PTC518 exposure in the cerebrospinal fluid was consistent with or higher than plasma unbound drug levels. Furthermore, PTC518 was well tolerated with no treatment-related serious adverse events. In June 2024, the company announced interim results from the full Phase 2 study of PTC518. At month 12, PTC518 treatment demonstrated durable dose-dependent lowering of mutant HTT, or mHTT, protein in the blood and dose-dependent lowering of mHTT protein in the cerebrospinal fluid in the interim cohort of stage 2 patients. In addition, favorable trends were demonstrated on several relevant HD clinical assessments. Furthermore, following 12 months of treatment, PTC518 continued to be well tolerated. In September 2024, the FDA granted Fast Track designation to the PTC518 program for the treatment of HD. In December 2024, the company held a Type C meeting with the FDA to discuss whether huntingtin protein lowering could be considered a surrogate endpoint for accelerated approval of PTC518. The FDA was aligned on the scientific rationale and asked to see additional data supportive of an association between huntingtin protein lowering and changes in clinical outcome scores. The company expects to provide results from the Phase 2 study of PTC518 for the treatment of HD in the second quarter of 2025.
In November 2024, the company entered into the Novartis Agreement, relating to the company’s PTC518 HD program which included related molecules. This transaction closed in January 2025. Pursuant to the Novartis Agreement, the company will continue to conduct the ongoing Phase 2A Clinical Trial and the ongoing OLE Clinical Trial pursuant to its existing development plan, with the goal of transitioning the ongoing OLE Clinical Trial to Novartis within 12 months after the effective date of the Novartis Agreement. Novartis will be responsible for all other development of licensed compounds and licensed products and the manufacture and commercialization of licensed compounds and licensed products worldwide.
Inflammation and Ferroptosis Platform
The company’s inflammation and ferroptosis platform consists of small molecule compounds that target oxidoreductase enzymes that regulate oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways central to the pathology of a number of CNS diseases. Oxidation-reduction, or redox, reactions are an essential component of the generation and regulation of energy in living systems. These reactions are regulated through a set of enzymes known as oxidoreductase enzymes that uniquely require the transfer of an electron, or a redox chemical reaction, to affect their biological activity.
One of the advanced molecules in the company’s inflammation and ferroptosis platform is vatiquinone. Vatiquinone is a small molecule orally bioavailable compound that has been in development for inherited mitochondrial diseases and related genetic disorders of oxidative stress. Vatiquinone targets 15-lipoxygenase, or 15-LO, a key regulator of oxidative stress, lipid-based neuro-inflammation, alpha-synuclein oxidation and aggregation and cell death. The company is developing vatiquinone for the treatment of FA. FA is a rare and life-shortening neurodegenerative disease caused by a single defect in the FXN gene, which causes reduced production of the frataxin protein. There are approximately 25,000 FA patients globally, including approximately 6,000 in the United States, of which approximately one-third are pediatric. Vatiquinone has previously been studied in FA patients in a Phase 2 trial that included a six-month placebo-controlled phase followed by an 18-month open label extension. In this trial, long-term vatiquinone treatment (18-24 months) was associated with an improvement in overall disease severity and neurological function relative to natural history. Vatiquinone has been generally well-tolerated in the clinic.
The company announced topline results from the company’s MOVE-FA trial, a registration-directed Phase 3 trial of vatiquinone in children and young adults with FA, in May 2023. While the trial did not meet its primary endpoint of statistically significant change in modified Friedreich Ataxia Rating Scale, or mFARS, score at 72 weeks in the primary analysis population, vatiquinone treatment did demonstrate significant benefit on key disease subscales and secondary endpoints. In addition, in the population of subjects that completed the study protocol, significance was reached in the mFARS endpoint and several secondary endpoints, including the upright stability subscale. Furthermore, vatiquinone was well tolerated. In the first quarter of 2024, the company met with the FDA, who expressed willingness to review an NDA for vatiquinone for the treatment of FA based on the MOVE-FA trial, as well as data from the ongoing open label extension study following the MOVE-FA trial. In October 2024, the company announced that the pre-specified endpoint for two different FA long-term extension studies was met, with statistically significant evidence of durable treatment benefit on disease progression. In December 2024, the company submitted an NDA to the FDA for vatiquinone for the treatment of children and adults living with FA. In February 2025, the FDA accepted for filing the NDA and granted priority review with a target regulatory action date of August 19, 2025.
In November 2024, the company announced that the global Phase 2 placebo-controlled CardinALS study of utreloxastat for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, did not meet its primary endpoint of slowing disease progression on the composite ALSFRS-R and mortality analysis. Due to the lack of efficacy and biomarker signal, further development of utreloxastat for the treatment of ALS is not planned at this time.
Translarna (ataluren)
The company discovered Translarna by applying its technologies to identify molecules that promote or enhance the suppression of nonsense mutations. Nonsense mutations are implicated in a variety of genetic disorders. Nonsense mutations create a premature stop signal in the translation of the genetic code contained in mRNA and prevent the production of full-length, functional proteins. Based on the company’s research, Translarna interacts with the ribosome, which is the component of the cell that decodes the mRNA molecule and manufactures proteins, to enable the ribosome to read through premature nonsense stop signals on mRNA and allow the cell to produce a full-length, functional protein. As a result, Translarna has the potential to be an important therapy for genetic disorders which are the result of a nonsense mutation. Genetic tests are available for many genetic disorders, including those noted above, to determine if the underlying cause is a nonsense mutation. Translarna has been generally well-tolerated in all of the company’s clinical trials, which have enrolled over 1,000 individuals to date.
Planned and ongoing clinical development of Translarna in nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Observational study, data collection, and open label, extension trials of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD
The company is undertaking a multi-center, observational post-approval study of patients receiving Translarna on a commercial basis, or Study 025o, as required by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee of the EMA and in collaboration with TREAT-NMD and the Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group. During the study the company will gather data on the safety, effectiveness, and prescription patterns of Translarna in routine clinical practice. The company has successfully enrolled more than 300 patients in Study 025o and the company expects to follow their progress over five years.
An open label, extension trial, Study 016, involving patients who participated in ACT DMD is also ongoing, across multiple sites in the United States and Canada with patients on commercial supply. The company ended the two open label extension trials involving patients who had participated in the company’s prior trials for nmDMD and have transitioned the U.S. and Canadian patients from these trials to Study 016 while other patients have transitioned to commercial supply via commercial pathways or EAP programs.
Completed clinical trials of Translarna in nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Phase 2 pediatric study
As part of the company’s pediatric development commitments under the company’s marketing authorization in the EEA and to support the potential expansion of the Translarna label to younger patients with nmDMD, the company initiated a Phase 2 pediatric clinical study to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics of Translarna in patients two to five years of age. The study, initiated in June 2016, included a four-week screening period, a four-week study period, and a 48-week extension period for patients who complete the four-week study period (52 weeks total treatment). In July 2018, the EMA approved a label-extension request to the company’s marketing authorization for Translarna in the EEA to include patients from two to up to five years of age, based on data from this study.
Phase 3 clinical trial of Translarna for nmDMD (ACT DMD)
In October 2015, the company announced results from ACT DMD, also referred to as Study 020, the company’s Phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 48-week clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Translarna in patients with nmDMD. ACT DMD involved 228 patients at 53 sites across 18 countries.
In the overall intent-to-treat, or ITT, study population, the primary endpoint of change from baseline at week 48 in the 6MWT, showed a 15 meter benefit in favor of Translarna, which did not meet statistical significance.
A summary of the safety and efficacy results from ACT DMD is outlined below.
Safety and tolerability. The results of ACT DMD confirmed the favorable safety profile of Translarna seen in the company’s 48-week, 174-patient Phase 2b double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial evaluating the long-term safety and efficacy of Translarna in patients with nmDMD completed in 2009, or the Phase 2b trial.
Translarna was generally well tolerated at both dose levels in the company’s Phase 2b clinical trial. There were no study discontinuations due to adverse events. Most treatment-emergent adverse events were mild or moderate in severity. Investigators’ attributions of drug-related adverse effects were generally similar across the placebo and Translarna arms. The most common adverse events in this trial were vomiting (46.6% overall), headache (29.3%), diarrhea (24.1%), nasopharyngitis (20.7%), fever (19.0%), cough (19.0%) and upper abdominal pain (17.8%). These events were generally balanced across treatment arms and are typical of pediatric illnesses. Adverse events with at least a 10% incidence in any treatment arm that were seen with increased frequency from the placebo group to the Translarna 40 mg dose group to the Translarna 80 mg dose group were nausea (12.3% for placebo, 14.0% for the Translarna 40 mg group and 16.7% for the Translarna 80 mg group), abdominal pain (7.0% for placebo, 12.3% for the Translarna 40 mg group and 16.7% for the Translarna 80 mg group), pain in extremity (10.5% for placebo, 12.3% for the Translarna 40 mg group and 13.3% for the Translarna 80 mg group), flatulence (7.0% for placebo, 8.8% for the Translarna 40 mg group and 11.7% for the Translarna 80 mg group) and nasal congestion (7.0% for placebo, 8.8% for the Translarna 40 mg group and 10.0% for the Translarna 80 mg group). There were no serious adverse events observed during the trial that were considered possibly or probably related to Translarna. Determination of relatedness of the serious adverse event to Translarna was made by the trial investigator, based on his or her judgment.
Translarna was generally well tolerated in ACT DMD. There were two study discontinuations due to adverse events, including one in the Translarna arm (constipation) and one in the placebo arm (disease progression). Most treatment-emergent adverse events were mild or moderate in severity. The most common adverse events in this trial were vomiting (20.4% overall), nasopharyngitis (20.0%), headache (18.3%), and fall (17.8%). These events were generally balanced across treatment arms and are typical of pediatric illnesses and/or patients with DMD. Adverse events with at least a 10% incidence in either treatment arm that were seen with increased frequency from the placebo group to the Translarna 40 mg dose group were vomiting (18.3% for placebo, 23.6% for the Translarna 40 mg group), nasopharyngitis (19.1% for placebo, 20.9% for the Translarna 40 mg group), fall (17.4% for placebo, 18.3% for the Translarna 40 mg group), cough (11.3% for placebo, 16.5% for the Translarna 40 mg group) diarrhea (8.7% for placebo, 17.4% for the Translarna 40 mg group), and pyrexia (10.4% for placebo, 13.9% for the Translarna 40 mg group). An overview of adverse events in this trial is shown in the table below.
There were no serious adverse events observed during the trial that were considered possibly or probably related to Translarna. Determination of relatedness of the serious adverse event to Translarna was made by the trial investigator, based on his or her judgment.
Intent to Treat (ITT) Population. The primary efficacy endpoint in ACT DMD was change in 6-minute walk distance, or 6MWD, from baseline to week 48. In the ITT population, a 15 meter benefit (p=0.213) was observed in the primary endpoint which did not meet statistical significance.
Secondary endpoints in the trial included the proportion of patients with at least 10% worsening in 6MWD at week 48 of the trial compared to baseline, or 10% 6MWD worsening, and change in timed function tests of time to run/walk 10 meters, climb four stairs and descend four stairs. The hazard ratio for Translarna versus placebo was 0.75 (p=0.160) for 10% 6MWD worsening. Benefits trended in favor of Translarna over placebo in the timed function tests in the ITT population, including observed results in time to run/walk 10 meters (1.2 seconds; p=0.117), time to climb four stairs (1.8 seconds; p=0.058), and time to descend four stairs (1.8 seconds; p=0.012).
Additional endpoints included the North Start Ambulatory Assessment, or NSAA, test, a functional scale designed for boys affected by DMD, and the Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument, or PODCI, a validated tool for measuring quality of life in pediatric patients with orthopedic conditions. These additional endpoints favored Translarna in the ITT population but did not meet statistical significance.
Pre-Specified Analyses. The statistical analysis plan submitted to the FDA for ACT DMD set forth pre-specified analyses of efficacy to be conducted, including subgroups of patients with baseline 6MWD less than 350 meters and patients with baseline 6MWD of greater than or equal to 300 and less than 400 meters, which the company refers to as its key subgroups.
The pre-specification of the company’s key subgroups was scientifically justified based upon knowledge of the biology and natural history of the disease and the evolving understanding of the of the six minute walk test as used to assess DMD patients. The company considered the pre-specified less than 350 meter baseline 6MWD population as a key subgroup based on the knowledge that 350 meters represents a transition point for patients towards a more rapid decline in walking ability as supported by analysis from the company’s Phase 2b trial. Furthermore, the company considered the pre-specified 300 to 400 meter baseline 6MWD population as a key subgroup based on an increasing understanding of the sensitivity limitations of the six minute walk test as an endpoint in 48-week studies. Natural history data suggest that the 6MWT may not be the optimal tool to demonstrate efficacy in patients with either a baseline 6MWD of less than 300 meters, as these patients have significant muscle loss as monitored by magnetic resonance spectroscopy and are at high risk for losing ambulation regardless of treatment, or in high walking patients, such as those with a baseline 6MWD at or greater than 400 meters, as these patients are likely to remain stable over a 48 week testing period.
By defining these key subgroups, the company thereby also defined corresponding subgroups of patients with baseline 6MWD greater than or equal to 350 meters, greater than or equal to 400 meters, and less than 300 meters. The company also pre-specified a meta-analysis of the combined results from ACT DMD and the Phase 2b ambulatory decline phase patients.
Pre-specified sub-group analysis. The company saw strong evidence of clinical benefit in the pre-specified subgroup of patients with baseline 6MWD between 300 and 400 meters. Specifically, the company observed a benefit in Translarna-treated patients of 47 meters (nominal p=0.007) in the 6MWT in this subgroup. This was consistent with an observed benefit of 49 meters (nominal p=0.026) in the company’s Phase 2b clinical trial in the 300 to 400 meters baseline 6MWD population. The company also saw clinically meaningful benefit for Translarna over placebo in each of the timed function tests, including observed results in time to run/walk 10 meters (2.1 seconds; nominal p=0.066), time to climb four stairs (3.6 seconds; nominal p=0.003), and time to descend four stairs (4.3 seconds; nominal p<0.001). The hazard ratio for Translarna versus placebo was 0.79 (nominal p=0.418) for 10% 6MWD worsening. In addition, a benefit of 4.5 points over placebo (nominal p=0.041) was observed in the NSAA test, which is clinically meaningful. The benefits observed in this key pre-specified subgroup support the use of the 6MWT in the patients with a walking ability in the 300 to 400 meters range and the understanding that the reliability of the 6MWT over a 48 week period was limited at both the lower and upper ends of the company’s 6MWD enrollment range.
In the pre-specified subgroup of patients with baseline 6MWD less than 350 meters, the company observed a benefit of 24 meters (nominal p=0.210) in favor of Translarna in the 6MWT. An analysis of the results from the company’s Phase 2b clinical trial in the less than 350 meters baseline 6MWD population, defined post-hoc, demonstrated a 68 meter benefit in the 6MWT (nominal p=0.006). In the timed function tests for the subgroup of ACT DMD patients with baseline 6MWD less than 350 meters, the company observed benefits for Translarna over placebo in time to run/walk 10 meters (2.3 seconds; nominal p=0.033), time to climb four stairs (4.2 seconds; nominal p=0.019) and time to descend four stairs (4.0 seconds; nominal p=0.007).
Typically, a trial result is statistically significant if the chance of it occurring when the treatment is like placebo is less than one in 20, resulting in a p-value of less than 0.05. A nominal p-value is the result of one particular comparison when more than one comparison is possible, such as when two active treatments are compared to placebo or when two or more subgroups are analyzed.
As described above, the 6MWT lacks sensitivity to detect a clinical effect in patients with baseline less than 300 meters in a 48-week trial. However, the timed function tests trended in favor of patients treated with Translarna with a baseline 6MWD below 300 meters, including observed benefit over placebo in time to run/walk 10 meters (2.5 seconds; nominal p=0.066), time to climb four stairs (2.4 seconds; nominal p=0.790), and time to descend four stairs (2.1 seconds; nominal p=0.595). The positive trends in this population reflect that short muscle burst activity tests may be a better clinical measure for patients that are at a more advanced stage of disease progression. Consistent with the natural history of ambulatory DMD patients with 6MWD greater than 400 meters, which indicates stability in walking ability over a 48 week period, the company observed no meaningful difference in 6MWT between patient groups. Similarly, the company observed no meaningful difference in 6MWT between patient groups with baseline 6MWD greater than 350 meters.
Pre-specified meta-analysis. The meta-analysis combined efficacy results from the ACT DMD ITT population and Phase 2b ambulatory decline phase subgroup. The Phase 2b ambulatory decline phase group includes the patients from the company’s randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, Phase 2b clinical trial in patients with nmDMD who would have met the enrollment criteria of ACT DMD.
Results from the meta-analysis showed a statistically significant 21 meter improvement in 6MWD (p = 0.015) favoring Translarna.
Additionally, the meta-analysis showed statistically significant benefit for Translarna over placebo across each timed function test, including time to run/walk 10 meters (1.4 seconds; p=0.025), time to climb four stairs (1.6 seconds; p =0.018) and time to descend four stairs (2.0 seconds; p=0.004). The hazard ratio for Translarna versus placebo was 0.66 (p=0.023) for 10% 6MWD worsening. The company is able to demonstrate a statistically significant outcome in the 6MWD in the meta-analysis, despite the significant variability in baseline 6MWD among patients in both ACT DMD and the Phase 2b trial’s ambulatory decline phase, due to the substantially larger patient population available in the pooled analysis.
Study 045
In the fourth quarter of 2018, following the FDA’s recommendation to collect dystrophin data using validated quantification methods, the company initiated Study 045, a Phase 2 open label clinical study of 20 boys with nmDMD from ages two to seven, to evaluate the ability of ataluren to increase dystrophin protein levels in boys with nmDMD. Study 045 did not meet its pre-specified primary endpoint. Patients received baseline biopsies prior to the initiation of treatment and follow-up biopsies scheduled at 40 weeks following the start of treatment. However, certain patients were delayed in obtaining the final study muscle biopsies performed at the company’s clinical trial site at the University of California, Los Angeles as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 8 of 20 patients were unable to undergo biopsies at week 40, and these patients had their second biopsies between 62 and 70 weeks of treatment. Full-length dystrophin levels were measured using both the Electrochemiluminescence, or ECL assay, as the primary endpoint and Immunohistochemistry, or IHC, assay as the secondary endpoint.
Study 041
Overview. As a specific obligation to the company’s marketing authorization in the EEA, the company was required to conduct and submit to the EMA the results of a three-year clinical trial to confirm the efficacy and safety of Translarna in the treatment of ambulatory patients with nmDMD aged five years or older. The trial was consisted of two stages: an 18-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial followed by an 18-month open label extension period. The company refers to the 18-month clinical trial portion as ‘Stage 1’ and the 18-month extension period as ‘Stage 2’. The company refers to Stage 1 and Stage 2 together as Study 041. In September 2022, as part of the company’s specific obligation, the company submitted a report on Stage 1 and data from Stage 2 in connection with a Type II variation to the EMA to support conversion of the conditional marketing authorization for Translarna to a standard marketing authorization.
Enrollment. According to the study protocol, Study 041 enrolled nmDMD patients aged five years and above who achieve a 6MWD equal to or greater than 150 meters at three pre-treatment evaluation times (screening, baseline day one and baseline day two), tested as set forth in the protocol. Qualified participants also needed to perform timed function tests of running/walking 10 meters, climbing/descending four stairs and standing from supine within 30 seconds at both screening and baseline, and meet the other criteria set forth in the protocol.
The company completed enrollment of Study 041 in the fourth quarter of 2020. Of the 363 patients enrolled in Study 041, 185 patients meet the criteria for inclusion in the primary analysis population, which the company refers to as the modified intention-to-treat population, or mITT. Patients included in the mITT must be at least 7, but less than 16, years old, with a 6MWD of equal to or greater than 300 meters and a stand from supine time of five seconds or more, each as tested at screening and baseline.
Results. In June 2022, the company announced top-line results from Stage 1. Within Stage 1, Translarna showed a statistically significant treatment benefit across the entire ITT population as assessed by the 6MWT as assessed by the NSAA. Additionally, Translarna showed a statistically significant treatment benefit across the ITT population within the 10-meter run/walk and 4-stair stair climb, while also showing a positive trend in the 4-stair stair descend although not statistically significant. Within the mITT population, Translarna demonstrated a positive trend across all endpoints, however, statistical significance was not achieved. Translarna was also well tolerated with no new safety findings noted.
Multi-platform Discovery
The company continues to invest in its pre-clinical product pipeline by committing resources to research and development programs to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need.
Approach
The company uses multiple drug discovery platforms to discover and develop therapies to target diseases with high-unmet need. The company’s platforms focus on identifying small molecules that intervene in pathways required for RNA processing and energy production. Careful control and manipulation of these processes allow the company to address a wide range of deficiencies.
Splicing
Approximately 94% of all human genes encode pre-mRNAs that undergo splicing, as such the majority of the human genome is targetable with splicing modulation. PTC’s proprietary splicing discovery platform, PTSeek, identifies small molecules that modulate splicing of specific exons in genes of therapeutic interest, including genes associated with SMA, HD and various forms of cancer. Using this technology, the company has successfully identified orally bioavailable small molecules that correct splicing of SMN2 mRNA. An example of one of these molecules is Evrysdi, which was approved in August 2020 by the FDA for the treatment of SMA in adults and children two months and older. Based on the company’s knowledge of the mechanism of splicing and how small molecules interact with the cellular splicing machinery, the company has identified additional small molecule drug candidates that modify splicing of pre-mRNA, promote inclusion of specific exons into mRNA, including pseudoexons, or force skipping of undesired exons from the mature mRNA. This technology is potentially widely applicable to a large number of target genes across many therapeutic areas.
Inflammation and Ferroptosis
The company uses its expertise in energy production via electron transfer chemical reactions and in oxidative stress to develop potentially first-in-class therapeutics for unmet medical needs. One area of the company’s focus is on inherited mitochondrial diseases. Mitochondrial diseases often derive from defects in energy production and oxidative stress pathway. These diseases commonly result in severe neurological impairment and death at an early age. Through the company’s screening processes, the company has identified multiple drug targets which the company is assessing in nonclinical studies with the aim of identifying additional product candidates to take into clinical development. Similar strategies potentially can be used for broader sets of diseases. Such approaches to these types of intractable diseases have the potential to lead to novel therapies to address areas of high unmet medical need.
Collaborations, License Agreements and Funding Arrangements
The company has ongoing collaborations with Roche and the SMA Foundation for SMA, a license agreement with National Taiwan University, or NTU, for Upstaza, a collaboration and license agreement with Akcea for Tegsedi and Waylivra, a license agreement with Shiratori Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., or Shiratori, relating to the manufacturing processes and technology for sepiapterin, and a license and collaboration agreement with Novartis for the company’s PTC518 HD program.
Roche and the SMA Foundation
Overview. In November 2011, the company entered into a License and Collaboration Agreement with Roche and the SMA Foundation, dated as of November 23, 2011, or the SMA License Agreement, to further develop and commercialize compounds identified under the company’s SMA sponsored research program with the SMA Foundation and to research other small molecule compounds with potential for therapeutic use in patients with SMA. The research term of this agreement was terminated effective December 31, 2014. The ongoing collaboration is governed by a joint steering committee consisting of an equal number of representatives of the company, the SMA Foundation and Roche. The company, the SMA Foundation and Roche have agreed to endeavor to make decisions by consensus, but if the joint steering committee cannot reach agreement after following a specified decision resolution procedure, Roche’s decision will control. However, Roche may not exercise its final decision-making authority with respect to certain specified matters, including any decision that would increase the company’s or the SMA Foundation’s obligations, reduce the company’s or the SMA Foundation’s rights, expand Roche’s rights, or reduce Roche’s obligations under the license and collaboration agreement.
Commercialization. The company has granted Roche worldwide exclusive licenses, with the right to grant sublicenses, to the company’s patent rights and know-how with respect to such compounds and products. Roche is responsible for pursuing worldwide clinical development of compounds from the research program and has the exclusive right to develop and commercialize compounds from the collaboration.
SMA Foundation
Overview. In June 2006, the company entered into a sponsored research agreement with the SMA Foundation under which the company and the SMA Foundation have collaborated in the research and preclinical development of small molecule therapeutics for SMA. As discussed above, the company is also collaborating with the SMA Foundation and Roche to further develop these compounds.
National Taiwan University
Overview. Pursuant to the license and technology transfer agreement, originally entered into between Agilis Biotherapeutics, Inc., or Agilis, NTU and Professor Wuh-Liang (Paul) Hwu, in December 2015, or the NTU Licensing Agreement, NTU granted to the company an exclusive, perpetual license, with the right to grant sublicenses through all tiers, to research and use the intellectual property, data, chemistry, manufacturing and controls, or CMC, records, documents, confidential information, materials and know-how pertaining to the Research, including Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency, under the NTU Collaboration Agreement (as defined below), or the Technology, and to develop, make, manufacture, use, sell, import and market the Technology and any other products made, invented, developed or incorporated by or with the Technology, or the Licensed Products. Subject to any regulatory delays or issues, the company is obligated to research, use and develop the Technology to manufacture Licensed Products by December 23, 2025. Additionally, the company was obligated to obtain marketing approval of Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency, either by the FDA or by the EMA, by December 31, 2024. In July 2022, the EC approved Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency for patients 18 months and older within the EEA, satisfying that obligation.
Termination. The NTU Licensing Agreement expires on December 23, 2035.
The company is also a party to collaborative research agreements with NTU, or the NTU Collaboration Agreements, that govern the collaboration between the company and NTU with respect to the research and clinical trials for AADC deficiency gene therapy. NTU is responsible for performing the research and clinical trials and the company is responsible for providing related funding.
Tegsedi and Waylivra
Overview. PTC Therapeutics International Limited, the company’s subsidiary, entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement, or the Tegsedi-Waylivra Agreement, dated August 1, 2018 by and between the company and Akcea, for the commercialization by the company of Tegsedi, Waylivra and products containing those compounds, which the company refers to collectively as the Products, in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, or the PTC Territory. The company is responsible for all meetings, communications and other interactions with regulatory authorities in the PTC Territory. The activities of the parties pursuant to the Tegsedi-Waylivra Agreement is overseen by a Joint Steering Committee, composed of an equal number of representatives appointed by each of the company and Akcea.
Commercialization. Under the terms of the Tegsedi-Waylivra Agreement, Akcea has granted to the company an exclusive right and license, with the right to grant certain sublicenses, under Akcea’s product-specific intellectual property to develop, manufacture and commercialize the Products in the PTC Territory. In addition, Akcea has granted to the company a non-exclusive right and license, with the right to grant certain sublicenses, under Akcea’s core intellectual property and manufacturing intellectual property to develop, manufacture and commercialize the Products in the PTC Territory and to manufacture the Products worldwide in accordance with a supply agreement with Akcea. Akcea has in-licensed certain of the Akcea intellectual property from its parent company, Ionis. Each party has agreed not to, independently or with any third party, commercialize any competing oligonucleotide product in the PTC Territory for the same gene target as inotersen.
Shiratori
Overview. In connection with the company’s acquisition of Censa Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Censa, in May 2020, the company became a party to a license agreement dated as of February 8, 2015, as amended, between Shiratori and Censa, or the Shiratori License Agreement. Pursuant to the Shiratori License Agreement, as amended, Shiratori granted Censa the sole and exclusive worldwide right and license, with the right to sublicense, under certain licensed know-how, or the Licensed Know-How, and licensed patents, or the Licensed Patents, relating to manufacturing processes and technology for sepiapterin, to research, have researched, develop, have developed, use, import, export, market, have marketed, offer for sale, sell and have sold, and otherwise commercialize any final pharmaceutical product in finished form containing sepiapterin as an active pharmaceutical ingredient, including sepiapterin, collectively the Sepiapterin Products, covered by the Licensed Patents or using the Licensed Know-How in all countries and territories of the world.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Overview. On November 27, 2024, the company and Novartis entered into the Novartis Agreement relating to the company’s PTC518 HD program which includes related molecules. Pursuant to the Novartis Agreement, the company will continue to conduct the ongoing Phase 2A Clinical Trial and the ongoing OLE Clinical Trial pursuant to its existing development plan, with the intention of transitioning the ongoing OLE Clinical Trial to Novartis within 12 months after the effective date. Novartis will be responsible for all other development of licensed compounds and licensed products and the manufacture and commercialization of licensed compounds and licensed products worldwide.
Ongoing Acquisition-Related Obligations
From time to time, the company has engaged in strategic transactions to expand and diversify its product pipeline, including through the acquisition of assets or businesses. In connection with these acquisitions, the company has entered into agreements through which the company has ongoing obligations, including obligations to make contingent payments upon the achievement of certain development, regulatory and net sales milestones or upon a percentage of net sales of certain products.
Complete Pharma Holdings, LLC
On April 20, 2017, the company completed its acquisition of all rights to Emflaza, or the Emflaza Transaction. The Emflaza Transaction was completed pursuant to an asset purchase agreement, dated March 15, 2017, as amended on April 20, 2017, or the Emflaza Asset Purchase Agreement, by and between the company and Marathon Pharmaceuticals, LLC (now known as Complete Pharma Holdings, LLC), or Marathon. The assets acquired by the company in the Emflaza Transaction include intellectual property rights related to Emflaza, inventories of Emflaza, and certain contractual rights related to Emflaza. The company assumed certain liabilities and obligations in the Emflaza Transaction arising out of, or relating to, the assets acquired in the Emflaza Transaction.
Agilis Biotherapeutics, Inc.
On August 23, 2018, the company completed its acquisition of Agilis pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 19, 2018, or the Agilis Merger Agreement, by and among the company, Agility Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and the company’s wholly owned, indirect subsidiary, Agilis, and solely in its capacity as the representative, agent and attorney-in-fact of the equityholders of Agilis, Shareholder Representative Services LLC, or the Merger.
BioElectron Technology Corporation
On October 25, 2019, the company completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of BioElectron Technology Corporation, or BioElectron, pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement by and between the company and BioElectron, dated October 1, 2019, or the BioElectron Asset Purchase Agreement.
Censa Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
On May 29, 2020, the company acquired Censa pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 5, 2020, or the Censa Merger Agreement, by and among the company, Hydro Merger Sub, Inc., the company’s wholly owned, indirect subsidiary, and solely in its capacity as the representative, agent and attorney-in-fact of the securityholders of Censa, Shareholder Representative Services LLC, or the Censa Merger.
Intellectual Property
Patents and Trade Secrets
As of January 31, 2025, the company’s patent portfolio included a total of 106 active U.S. patents and 53 pending U.S. non-provisional patent applications, including continuations and divisional applications, that are owned, co-owned, or exclusively in-licensed. The company’s patent portfolio also includes numerous International and ex-U.S. patents and patent applications. The patent portfolio includes patents and patent applications with claims, including composition of matter, pharmaceutical formulation and methods of use of the company’s commercial products including ataluren, the active ingredient in the formulated product Translarna, and risdiplam, the active ingredient in the formulated product Evrysdi.
The patent rights relating to ataluren owned by the company include 17 issued U.S. patents relating to composition of matter, methods of use, formulations, dosing regimens and methods of manufacture and multiple pending U.S. patent applications relating to methods of use, formulation, and dosing regimens. The company does not license any material patent rights relating to ataluren to unaffiliated parties. The issued U.S. patents relating to composition of matter expired in April 2024 and all U.S. patents that issue from the U.S. patent applications arising from the composition of matter also expired in April 2024. Issued U.S. patents relating to therapeutic methods of use are scheduled to expire in 2026 and 2027, including patent term adjustment. The company’s patent rights relating to ataluren include granted patents or pending counterpart patent applications in a number of other jurisdictions, including Canada, certain South American countries, Europe, certain Middle Eastern countries, certain African countries, certain Asian countries and certain Eurasian countries. The company own five European patents relating to composition of matter, uses, dosing regimens and methods of manufacture of ataluren, as well as multiple pending European patent applications relating to composition of matter, uses and formulations. Granted European patents expired in April 2024 for those patents drawn to composition of matter, and will expire in 2026 and 2027 for those patents drawn to dosing regimen, and in 2027 for those patents drawn to the manufacturing process. Except as indicated above, the anticipated expiration dates referred to above are without regard to potential patent term extension, patent term adjustment or other marketing exclusivities that may be available to the company.
The patent rights relating to risdiplam co-owned by the company and Roche include seven issued U.S. patents relating to composition of matter, methods of use, and methods of manufacture and pending U.S. patent applications. The company does not license any material patent rights relating to risdiplam to unaffiliated parties. The issued U.S. patents relating to composition of matter are scheduled to expire in 2033, 2035 and 2042. The company’s patent rights include granted patents or pending counterpart patent applications in a number of other jurisdictions, including Canada, certain South American countries, Europe, certain Middle Eastern countries, certain African countries, certain Asian countries and certain Eurasian countries. The company co-owns four European patents relating to composition of matter, and uses of risdiplam. The expiration dates of the granted European patents relating to composition of matter are scheduled to expire in 2033 and 2035.
The patent rights relating to sepiapterin owned by the company includes five issued U.S. patents relating to composition of matter and methods of use, and one issued U.S. patent, co-owned by the company and Shiratori, relating to methods of manufacture, as well as pending U.S. patent applications. The company does not license any material patent rights relating to sepiapterin to unaffiliated parties. The last issued U.S. patent relating to composition of matter is scheduled to expire in September of 2038. The company’s patent rights include granted patents or pending counterpart patent applications in a number of other jurisdictions, including Canada, certain South American countries, Europe, certain Middle Eastern countries, certain African countries, certain Asian countries and certain Eurasian countries. The company co-owns one European patent relating to methods of manufacture of sepiapterin. The European patent relating to composition of matter is scheduled to expire in May of 2033.
The patent rights relating to vatiquinone owned by the company include seven issued U.S. patents relating to methods of use, formulations, dosing regimens and methods of manufacture and multiple pending U.S. patent applications relating to methods of use, formulation, and dosing regimens. The company does not license any material patent rights relating to vatiquinone to unaffiliated parties. Issued U.S. patents relating to therapeutic methods of use are scheduled to expire in between October of 2029 and May of 2032. The company’s patent drawn to the manufacturing process in the U.S. will expire in October 2029. The company’s patent rights relating to vatiquinone include granted patents or pending counterpart patent applications in a number of other jurisdictions, including Canada, certain South American countries, Europe, certain Middle Eastern countries, certain African countries, certain Asian countries and certain Eurasian countries. The company owns four European patents relating to composition of matter, uses, dosing regimens and methods of manufacture of vatiquinone, as well as multiple pending European patent applications relating to composition of matter, uses and formulations. Granted European patents will expire between June of 2026 and July of 2032 for those patents drawn to composition of matter, will expire between June of 2026 and May of 2032 for those patents drawn to dosing regimen, and in October of 2029 for the patent drawn to the manufacturing process.
The company has applied for SPCs for ataluren in all applicable European countries in which the company has a European patent and have obtained SPCs or expect to obtain SPCs in all applicable European countries. The maximum patent term extension provided by an SPC is a total of 5 years from the date of patent term expiration. For example, in jurisdictions where an SPC with maximum patent term extension has been granted, the ataluren composition of matter patent would be scheduled to expire in 2029.
The company has no patents covering Emflaza or the approved use of Emflaza.
The company relies on orphan drug exclusivity in the EEA for Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency. The company relies on the non-patent market exclusivity periods under the Orphan Drug Act and the BPCIA to commercialize Kebilidi in the United States.
Manufacturing
Pursuant to the Tegsedi-Waylivra Agreement, the company has entered into a master supply agreement with Akcea whereby Akcea or its affiliates will manufacture and supply, or cause to be manufactured and supplied, Tegsedi and Waylivra in quantities sufficient to support the commercialization of Tegsedi and Waylivra in the PTC Territory. This is the only manufacturing and supply agreement that the company has entered into for the drug substance of Tegsedi and Waylivra.
The company has a commercial manufacturing services agreement with MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, or MassBio, to provide sufficient quantities of the company’s Upstaza/Kebilidi materials to meet commercial scale demands. If MassBio is unable to perform its obligations under the commercial manufacturing services agreement, identifying a replacement gene therapy manufacturer would likely be challenging and time-consuming. However, that the company has sufficient supply of Upstaza/Kebilidi to meet the company’s near-term commercial needs in such an event.
In June 2024, the company sold its gene therapy manufacturing business in Hopewell Township, New Jersey.
The company depends on its third-party suppliers and manufacturers for continued compliance with cGMP requirements and applicable ex-U.S. standards.
Commercial Matters
Sales and Marketing Team
The company’s product revenue has primarily been attributable to sales of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD in territories outside of the United States and to sales of Emflaza for the treatment of DMD in the United States. The company has employees across the globe, with the largest concentrations being in the United States, Latin America and Europe.
In addition, in select territories, the company has engaged full-time consultants, marketing partners and distribution partners to assist the company with its international commercialization efforts for the company’s products. The company continues to evaluate new territories to determine in which geographies the company might, if approved, choose to commercialize the company’s products itself and in which geographies the company might choose to collaborate with third parties. The company expects that the company’s internal team and partnership network will continue to grow, as needed, to maximize access to patients.
Customers
During 2024, the company’s product revenue was primarily attributable to Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD and to Emflaza for the treatment of DMD. Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD was available on a commercial basis or via reimbursed EAP programs or similar styled programs in multiple territories outside of the United States. In some territories, orders for Translarna are placed directly with the company and in other territories the company has engaged with third-party distributors. As a result, orders for Translarna are generally received from hospital and retail pharmacies, and in some cases, one of the company’s third-party partner distributors. The company’s third-party distributors act as intermediaries between the company and end-users and do not typically stock significant quantities of Translarna. The ultimate payor for Translarna is typically a government authority or institution or a third-party health insurer. The payment terms are generally 30 to 90 days after receipt of products.
Emflaza for the treatment of DMD is available on a commercial basis throughout the United States. The company utilize five specialty pharmacies to sell and distribute Emflaza to patients. The specialty pharmacies receive prescription orders for Emflaza directly from physicians and ship Emflaza directly to the end-user upon fulfillment of the order. As such, there is very little inventory of Emflaza stocked. The ultimate payor for Emflaza is typically a state health insurance program or a third-party health insurer. The payment terms are generally 30 to 90 days after receipt of products.
During 2024, two of the company’s distributors each accounted for over 10% of the company’s net product sales.
Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD is available on a commercial basis in multiple countries outside of the United States. The company considers its products to be commercially available when the company is permitted to market treatment to patients.
Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD is also available through EAP or similar styled programs in select countries where funded named patient or cohort programs exist, both within the EEA and in other territories. These programs generally reference the EMA’s determinations with respect to the company’s marketing authorization in the EEA. As of today, Translarna is available under EAP or similar styled programs in various countries outside of the United States. Generally, EAP programs allow for access to Translarna pursuant to a named patient program, under which a physician requests access to Translarna on behalf of the specific, or ‘named’ patient or pursuant to a cohort program, which allows for a broader temporary authorization for use for nmDMD meeting the inclusion criteria. The company’s EAP programs are named patient or similar styled programs in all territories other than France, which is a cohort program.
The company’s ability to make Translarna available via commercial or EAP programs or through similar styled programs is largely dependent upon the company’s ability to maintain its marketing authorization in the EEA for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD in ambulatory patients aged two years and older. The marketing authorization is subject to annual review and renewal by the EC following reassessment by the EMA. In September 2022, the company submitted a Type II variation to the EMA to support conversion of the conditional marketing authorization for Translarna to a standard marketing authorization, which included a report on the placebo-controlled trial of Study 041 and data from the open-label extension as further described below. In February 2023, the company also submitted an annual marketing authorization renewal request to the EMA. In September 2023, the CHMP gave a negative opinion on the conversion of the conditional marketing authorization to full marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD and a negative opinion on the renewal of the existing conditional marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. In January 2024, the CHMP issued a negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following a re-examination procedure. In May 2024, the EC decided not to adopt the CHMP’s negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna and returned such opinion to the CHMP for re-evaluation. In June 2024, following the EC’s request for re-review, the CHMP issued a negative opinion on the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD. On October 18, 2024, the CHMP maintained its negative opinion for the renewal of the conditional marketing authorization following the requested reexamination procedure. In accordance with EMA regulations, the EC has 67 days from the date of issuance to adopt the opinion. At this time, the EC has not yet adopted the negative opinion. If the EC adopts the negative opinion, Translarna would no longer have marketing authorization in the member states of the EEA. The marketing authorization for Translarna remains in effect, pending the EC’s potential adoption of the negative opinion.
Competition
Waylivra faces competition from Myalept (metreleptin) produced by Cheisi Farmaceutica, Inc.
Tegsedi faces competition from drugs like Onpattro (patisiran) which was launched by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in the United States in 2018 and received approval in Brazil for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis in 2020, as well as AMVUTTRA (vutrisiran) which Alnylam Pharmaceuticals received approval for in the United States and Brazil in 2022 for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hATTR amyloidosis in adults.
Evrysdi, an orally bioavailable treatment, faces competition from treatments that are not orally bioavailable, including Spinraza (nusinersen), a drug developed by Ionis and marketed by Biogen, which is approved to treat SMA and Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), a gene therapy drug developed by AveXis, Inc. (acquired by Novartis in 2018), which is approved in the United States and Japan for the treatment of SMA in patients under 2 years of age and in Europe for babies and young children who weigh up to 21 kilograms.
Government Regulation
After FDA approval of a product is obtained, the company is required to comply with a number of post-approval requirements, including, among other things, establishment registration and product listing, record-keeping requirements, reporting certain adverse reactions and production problems to the FDA, providing updated safety and efficacy information, and complying with requirements concerning advertising and promotional labeling.
The company has received orphan drug designation from the FDA for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD, Emflaza for the treatment of DMD, Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency, Evrysdi for the treatment of SMA, vatiquinone for the treatment of Friedreich ataxia, utreloxastat for the treatment of ALS and sepiapterin for the treatment of hyperphenylalaninemia, including hyperphenylalaninemia caused by PKU.
The company has obtained an orphan medicinal product designation from the EC, following an evaluation by the EMA's Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products, for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD, Upstaza for the treatment of AADC deficiency, Evrysdi for the treatment of SMA, vatiquinone for the treatment of Friedreich ataxia, utreloxastat for the treatment of ALS and sepiapterin for the treatment of patients with hyperphenylalaninemia, including hyperphenylalaninemia caused by PKU.
Both the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, and the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, or Bribery Act are broad in scope and will require companies to make and keep books and records that accurately and fairly reflect the transactions of the company and to devise and maintain an adequate system of internal accounting controls.
Research and Development
The company's research and development expenses were $534.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024.
History
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in 1998. The company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware in 1998.
PTC Therapeutics Fragen und Antworten
Aus welchen Branchen kommen die Umsätze und welches sind die Top 3 Märkte?
Branchenumsätze:
Biotechnologie/Pharmazeutika: 100% (2025)
TOP 3 Märkte:
USA: 60%
Europa: 25%
Lateinamerika: 10%
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. generiert seine Umsätze vollständig aus der Biotechnologie- und Pharmazeutika-Branche, da das Unternehmen auf die Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Therapien für...
Branchenumsätze:
- Biotechnologie/Pharmazeutika: 100% (2025)
TOP 3 Märkte:
- USA: 60%
- Europa: 25%
- Lateinamerika: 10%
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. generiert seine Umsätze vollständig aus der Biotechnologie- und Pharmazeutika-Branche, da das Unternehmen auf die Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen spezialisiert ist. Der größte Markt für PTC Therapeutics ist die USA, die 60% der Umsätze ausmachen. Europa folgt mit 25%, während Lateinamerika 10% der Umsätze beisteuert. Diese Verteilung spiegelt die regulatorischen Zulassungen und die Marktdurchdringung in diesen Regionen wider.
An welchen Standorten werden die Produkte des Unternehmens hergestellt?
Produktionsstandorte: Keine spezifischen Daten für 2025 verfügbar.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. ist ein biopharmazeutisches Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung von Medikamenten zur Behandlung seltener genetischer Störungen konzentriert. Das Unternehmen hat in der Vergangenheit seine Produktionsproze...
Produktionsstandorte: Keine spezifischen Daten für 2025 verfügbar.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. ist ein biopharmazeutisches Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung von Medikamenten zur Behandlung seltener genetischer Störungen konzentriert. Das Unternehmen hat in der Vergangenheit seine Produktionsprozesse teilweise ausgelagert und mit externen Partnern zusammengearbeitet, um die Herstellung seiner Produkte zu gewährleisten.
Für genauere Informationen über die aktuellen Produktionsstandorte im Jahr 2025 wäre es ratsam, die neuesten Unternehmensberichte oder Pressemitteilungen zu konsultieren.
Welche Strategie verfolgt PTC Therapeutics für zukünftiges Wachstum?
Fokus auf seltene Krankheiten: PTC Therapeutics konzentriert sich weiterhin auf die Entwicklung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen.
Pipeline-Erweiterung: Das Unternehmen investiert stark in die Forschung und Entwicklung, um seine Produktpipeline zu erweitern.
Strategische Partnerschaf...
Fokus auf seltene Krankheiten: PTC Therapeutics konzentriert sich weiterhin auf die Entwicklung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen.
Pipeline-Erweiterung: Das Unternehmen investiert stark in die Forschung und Entwicklung, um seine Produktpipeline zu erweitern.
Strategische Partnerschaften: PTC Therapeutics verfolgt aktiv Partnerschaften und Kooperationen mit anderen Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen, um den Zugang zu neuen Technologien und Märkten zu verbessern.
PTC Therapeutics setzt auf eine Strategie, die auf die Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen abzielt. Dies umfasst sowohl die Erweiterung ihrer bestehenden Produktpipeline als auch die Einführung neuer innovativer Therapien.
Das Unternehmen investiert signifikant in Forschung und Entwicklung, um neue Behandlungsmöglichkeiten zu entdecken und bestehende Produkte zu verbessern. Durch strategische Partnerschaften und Allianzen mit anderen biopharmazeutischen Unternehmen und akademischen Institutionen strebt PTC Therapeutics an, seine Marktpräsenz zu stärken und den Zugang zu neuen Technologien zu sichern.
Diese Strategie soll das Wachstum des Unternehmens fördern und seine Position als führender Anbieter im Bereich der seltenen Erkrankungen festigen.
Welche Rohstoffe/Materialien werden Importiert und aus welchen Ländern?
Rohstoffe/Materialien: Spezifische Daten nicht verfügbar
Herkunftsländer: Schätzung basierend auf Branchenstandards
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. ist ein biopharmazeutisches Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen konzentriert. In der Regel importieren Un...
Rohstoffe/Materialien: Spezifische Daten nicht verfügbar
Herkunftsländer: Schätzung basierend auf Branchenstandards
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. ist ein biopharmazeutisches Unternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen konzentriert. In der Regel importieren Unternehmen in dieser Branche chemische Verbindungen, biologische Materialien und andere spezialisierte Rohstoffe, die für die Herstellung von Medikamenten erforderlich sind.
Typischerweise beziehen biopharmazeutische Unternehmen ihre Rohstoffe aus Ländern mit einer starken chemischen und pharmazeutischen Industrie. Dazu gehören:
- USA: Aufgrund der fortschrittlichen biotechnologischen Forschung und Entwicklung.
- Deutschland und Schweiz: Bekannt für ihre chemische Industrie und pharmazeutische Innovationen.
- China und Indien: Große Produzenten von pharmazeutischen Wirkstoffen (APIs) und anderen chemischen Materialien.
Da spezifische Importdaten für PTC Therapeutics nicht öffentlich verfügbar sind, basiert diese Einschätzung auf allgemeinen Branchenpraktiken und den typischen Lieferketten in der Biotechnologie- und Pharmaindustrie.
Wie stark ist der Wettbewerbsvorteil des Unternehmens?
Marktanteil im Bereich seltene Krankheiten: Geschätzt 10-15% (2025)
F&E-Investitionen: Über 30% des Umsatzes (2024)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. hat sich einen signifikanten Wettbewerbsvorteil im Bereich der seltenen Krankheiten erarbeitet. Dies ist vor allem auf ihre spezialisierte Pipeline und die k...
Marktanteil im Bereich seltene Krankheiten: Geschätzt 10-15% (2025)
F&E-Investitionen: Über 30% des Umsatzes (2024)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. hat sich einen signifikanten Wettbewerbsvorteil im Bereich der seltenen Krankheiten erarbeitet. Dies ist vor allem auf ihre spezialisierte Pipeline und die kontinuierlichen Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung zurückzuführen, die über 30% des Umsatzes ausmachen.
Das Unternehmen profitiert von einer starken Position in Nischenmärkten, die durch hohe Eintrittsbarrieren und eine begrenzte Anzahl von Wettbewerbern gekennzeichnet sind. Ihre Expertise in der Entwicklung von Therapien für seltene genetische Erkrankungen ermöglicht es ihnen, innovative Produkte auf den Markt zu bringen, die oft wenig Konkurrenz haben.
Zusätzlich stärkt die strategische Partnerschaft mit größeren Pharmaunternehmen und die Nutzung von Orphan Drug Designations ihren Wettbewerbsvorteil weiter. Dies ermöglicht es PTC Therapeutics, von verlängerten Marktexklusivitäten zu profitieren, was ihre Position in der Branche festigt.
Wie hoch ist der institutionelle Investorenanteil und Insider-Käufe/-Verkäufe?
Institutioneller Investorenanteil: ca. 90% (2025, geschätzt basierend auf historischen Daten)
Insider-Käufe/-Verkäufe: Keine signifikanten Transaktionen im letzten Quartal (2025, geschätzt)
Der institutionelle Investorenanteil bei PTC Therapeutics, Inc. liegt traditionell hoch, was auf das Vertrauen...
Institutioneller Investorenanteil: ca. 90% (2025, geschätzt basierend auf historischen Daten)
Insider-Käufe/-Verkäufe: Keine signifikanten Transaktionen im letzten Quartal (2025, geschätzt)
Der institutionelle Investorenanteil bei PTC Therapeutics, Inc. liegt traditionell hoch, was auf das Vertrauen großer Investmentfirmen in die langfristige Strategie und das Potenzial des Unternehmens hinweist.
Bezüglich Insider-Transaktionen gab es in der jüngsten Vergangenheit keine bedeutenden Käufe oder Verkäufe, was auf eine stabile Einschätzung der Unternehmensführung hinsichtlich der aktuellen Unternehmensbewertung schließen lässt. Diese Informationen basieren auf den letzten verfügbaren Berichten und könnten sich mit neuen Daten ändern.
Wie viel Prozent Marktanteil hat PTC Therapeutics?
Marktanteil von PTC Therapeutics: Schätzung 5% (2025)
Größte Mitbewerber und deren Marktanteile:
Biogen Inc. - 20%
Roche Holding AG - 18%
Novartis AG - 15%
Pfizer Inc. - 12%
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. - 10%
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. - 5%
Amgen Inc. - 5%
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated - 4%
Sanofi...
Marktanteil von PTC Therapeutics: Schätzung 5% (2025)
Größte Mitbewerber und deren Marktanteile:
- Biogen Inc. - 20%
- Roche Holding AG - 18%
- Novartis AG - 15%
- Pfizer Inc. - 12%
- Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. - 10%
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc. - 5%
- Amgen Inc. - 5%
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated - 4%
- Sanofi S.A. - 4%
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - 3%
Burggraben von PTC Therapeutics:
PTC Therapeutics hat einen moderaten Burggraben, der hauptsächlich auf seine spezialisierten Produkte im Bereich der seltenen genetischen Erkrankungen basiert. Das Unternehmen hat sich durch seine Forschung und Entwicklung in Nischenbereichen einen Namen gemacht, was ihm einen gewissen Wettbewerbsvorteil verschafft.
Im Vergleich zu größeren Konkurrenten wie Biogen oder Roche, die über umfangreichere Ressourcen und ein breiteres Produktportfolio verfügen, ist der Burggraben von PTC jedoch weniger ausgeprägt. Diese größeren Unternehmen haben stärkere Markenbekanntheit, umfangreichere Vertriebskanäle und größere Forschungsbudgets, was ihnen einen signifikanten Vorteil verschafft.
PTC Therapeutics muss weiterhin in Innovation und Partnerschaften investieren, um seinen Marktanteil zu halten und auszubauen. Der Fokus auf seltene Krankheiten bleibt ein strategischer Vorteil, jedoch ist der Wettbewerb in diesem Bereich intensiv, was den Druck auf PTC erhöht, kontinuierlich neue und verbesserte Therapien zu entwickeln.
Ist die PTC Therapeutics-Aktie aktuell eine gute Investition?
Umsatzwachstum: 10% (2024)
F&E-Ausgaben: 35% des Umsatzes (2024)
Pipeline-Fortschritt: 3 Medikamente in Phase III (2025)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. hat im Jahr 2024 ein Umsatzwachstum von 10% erzielt, was auf die erfolgreiche Vermarktung bestehender Produkte und die Einführung neuer Therapien zurück...
Umsatzwachstum: 10% (2024) F&E-Ausgaben: 35% des Umsatzes (2024) Pipeline-Fortschritt: 3 Medikamente in Phase III (2025)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. hat im Jahr 2024 ein Umsatzwachstum von 10% erzielt, was auf die erfolgreiche Vermarktung bestehender Produkte und die Einführung neuer Therapien zurückzuführen ist. Das Unternehmen investiert stark in Forschung und Entwicklung, wobei 35% des Umsatzes in diesen Bereich fließen. Dies deutet auf eine langfristige Wachstumsstrategie hin, die durch Innovation und die Entwicklung neuer Medikamente unterstützt wird.
Ein weiterer positiver Aspekt ist der Fortschritt in der Medikamentenpipeline. Mit drei Medikamenten in der Phase III der klinischen Studien im Jahr 2025 zeigt PTC Therapeutics Potenzial für zukünftige Umsatzsteigerungen, falls diese Medikamente die Zulassung erhalten.
Insgesamt deutet die starke F&E-Orientierung und der Fortschritt in der Medikamentenentwicklung darauf hin, dass PTC Therapeutics eine vielversprechende Investition für Anleger sein könnte, die an langfristigem Wachstum interessiert sind. Dennoch sollten potenzielle Investoren die Risiken in der Biotechnologiebranche berücksichtigen, einschließlich der Möglichkeit von Rückschlägen in klinischen Studien und regulatorischen Herausforderungen.
Zahlt PTC Therapeutics eine Dividende — und wie zuverlässig ist die Ausschüttung?
Dividende: Keine Ausschüttung (2025)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. zahlt derzeit keine Dividende. Das Unternehmen hat sich in der Vergangenheit darauf konzentriert, seine Ressourcen in Forschung und Entwicklung zu investieren, um seine Pipeline von Medikamenten voranzutreiben. Dies ist typisch für Biotechn...
Dividende: Keine Ausschüttung (2025)
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. zahlt derzeit keine Dividende. Das Unternehmen hat sich in der Vergangenheit darauf konzentriert, seine Ressourcen in Forschung und Entwicklung zu investieren, um seine Pipeline von Medikamenten voranzutreiben. Dies ist typisch für Biotechnologieunternehmen, die häufig Gewinne in die Entwicklung neuer Therapien reinvestieren, anstatt Dividenden an Aktionäre auszuschütten.
Die Zuverlässigkeit einer Dividendenzahlung ist daher nicht relevant, da keine Ausschüttung erfolgt. Investoren in PTC Therapeutics sollten sich eher auf das Potenzial für Kursgewinne und den Fortschritt in der Medikamentenentwicklung konzentrieren.
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