Glaxo get Indian market rights for Japanese medicine

By IANS,

Mumbai : Pharma major GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has bagged a deal to sell Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc’s popular injectible anti-fungal agent Micafungin in India.


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Announcing this Monday, GlaxoSmithKline said the deal gives it exclusive market rights for the sale of Micafungin (brand name Mycamine) in India.

Micafungin, belonging to a new class of anti-fungal agents used in the medication of deep seated Candida infections, was initially approved by Japanese Agency in 2002, by the US in 2005 followed by other countries.

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