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Cedazuridine; Decitabine

Sold as INQOVI · given by oral

Ten years or more until it comes off patent
14.5 yr
Until anyone may copy it
Protection runs to 2041-02-24
40
Trials running now
78 registered in total
Phase 3
Furthest stage reached
large trials measuring benefit
3
Organisations running trials
lead sponsors on record
01

Who owns it, and until when

Taiho Oncology Inc
Approval holder
the only company permitted to sell it today
2041-02
Last patent expires
latest patent filed against this product
2029-05
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

Acute Myeloid LeukemiaMyelodysplastic SyndromesChronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
03

Who is paying for the research

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
US government
12
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
University or hospital
11
Taiho Oncology, Inc.
Company
7

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

NCT07437950Phase 22027 · 126 people · recruiting now
Comparing Different Treatment Lengths for Ve

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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