Richard Francis
Management
Yes, thanks Jason. Thanks for the question. On the biosimilar one, starting with biosimilar Humira, it really obviously depends on the FDA giving a successful inspection of our partner, Alvotech’s facility in Iceland. Now, if that does happen, and we’ll hopefully know relatively soon, then it does give us an opportunity to launch. I think there’s obviously a lot to play for there still, because 2023 was slow with regard to penetration of the biosimilars. That said, there are a lot of uncertain variables - will we get the FDA approval of the site and be able to launch it, and then the timing of that launch and, to your point, how we can penetrate with the PBM. What I would say is we’re having good conversations. People are very interested in hearing about when our product can come to the market. I think a lot of that is based on the product profile, not just the interchangeability, the auto-injector, so I see opportunity here. The way I’ve always characterized it is it’s opportunity over short, medium and long term. I think Humira could add revenue to our business this year. I think it definitely will in ’25, ’26 and ’27. I think the direction of travel will be very clear for biosimilars. I think Humira doesn’t define in ’23 what happens going forward, so that’s what I think about Humira, but we have some caveats there with regard to when we actually get this product approved. I think to talk about Stelara, I think that what I’ve learned in biosimilars, and I’ve been in it quite a long time, is one product doesn’t set the precedent for the next one. I think Stelara has many things that are different around it: one, that is has a lot less competitors, for one; and two, we have a clear line of sight of when we’re going to be approved or be launched, which is in February of 2025, so we’re very optimistic about that. We see that as a sizeable asset, and so we see that as something that can generate significant revenue. Once again with regard to the speed of uptake, we’ll have to see how that plays out. I think the important thing for Teva is we’re not being very--we’re not hanging on the fact that these products need to come to market and deliver quick revenues, because we have a portfolio in play. We have 13 assets to bring to market; as I mentioned, we’ve got five that we’re going to launch by 2027. I think they’ll all generate good return and drive our top line and bottom line, but to be very specific about which ones will generate which revenue when, I think is something I don’t want to do because of the unpredictability that we’ve seen in the last year. Hopefully that goes some way to answer your question, Jason.