Bruce C. Cozadd - Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc
Analyst · Wells Fargo. Your line is now open
So, Katie, on the second part of your question, again, for the once-nightly effort, we've got multiple pieces of that puzzle, so it's not one answer to that question. On Erwinaze, think about it this way; right now, we need every vial of every batch of Erwinaze to supply all of the demand we'd like to supply. And so, we're working as hard to make sure that every vial gets produced is high quality, gets released on time, and a lot of our efforts are around reliability, quality, yield. Over time, as we increase capacity, we'd like to get to the place we're at, frankly, with some of our other products where we've got some safety stock, right? We've manufactured some. It's sitting on the shelf here and provides a buffer. If anything goes wrong with a particular lot that we're manufacturing, we throw it away and make a new one and the market never sees that because that's just an expense to us. That's where we are, for example, with Xyrem. To get there, we're going to have to make significant improvements in capacity, and we're going to have to get far enough ahead of the demand curve that we have a full extra lot sitting there, or a couple. That's going to take time. So think of the near-term efforts as improve quality, reliability, yield, think of the mid-term efforts as really focused around significantly improving capacity so we can get ahead of this and really cushion the market against any shocks in supply. I'll also point out that we do have some asparaginase related development efforts. We've talked on this call about our oxybate-related development efforts. We've talked about defibrotide in terms of prevention of VOD. We've talked about our JZP-110 program. I mentioned interest in potential additional development of Vyxeos. But this is another area where we're interested in and we have efforts under way to see if we can come up with even better products for patients than the existing Erwinaze product. Those are earlier-stage development efforts. They're not close to coming to market, but think of us trying to address this problem on multiple ways: short term, medium term and long term.