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Asciminib Hydrochloride

Sold as SCEMBLIX · given by oral

Ten years or more until it comes off patent
13.7 yr
Until anyone may copy it
Protection runs to 2040-05-17
34
Trials running now
55 registered in total
In routine use
Furthest stage reached
already in routine clinical use
3
Organisations running trials
lead sponsors on record
01

Who owns it, and until when

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp
Approval holder
the only company permitted to sell it today
2040-05
Last patent expires
latest patent filed against this product
2031-10
FDA exclusivity ends
a separate protection granted at approval

Whichever date falls later is when other manufacturers may apply to sell copies. Price typically falls steeply within a year of that point, and with it any company's ability to recover the cost of new research on the molecule. That is when it becomes a candidate for the ledger on the first tab.

02

What it is being tested for

Chronic Myeloid LeukemiaChronic Myelogenous LeukemiaAcute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
03

Who is paying for the research

Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Company
31
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
University or hospital
5
Gruppo Italiano Malattie EMatologi
University or hospital
2

Who funds the trials matters after protection lapses. Company-funded work usually stops once exclusivity ends; university, hospital and government-funded work does not, and is the research most likely to continue on this molecule afterwards.

04

The trials themselves

NCT07040982Phase 12026 · 30 people · recruiting now
Asciminib as Maintenance Treatment After Cel

Expiry dates are what the patent holder has filed; litigation, paediatric extensions and settlements routinely move them, so read these as the earliest plausible date rather than a schedule. Not medical advice.

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