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Risk Sharing and Innovative Contracting with CROs

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CROs are seeking greater upside from royalties and other opportunities to participate in profits. Meanwhile, drug makers have an interest in reducing upfront drug development costs, and reducing the financial risks of product failure.

More sponsors and CROs are entering into innovative relationships where risk is shared more fully between the two companies, while profits from successful projects are also shared. Key types of agreements include preferred vendors, functional service providers (FSPs), risk sharers, alliance partners, drug licensors, joint venture partners and contract research alliance partners.

Scope of this research

• Identify the benefits and challenges of risk sharing & innovative contracting agreements and structure more successful deals.

• Analyze compensation and pricing issues in risk sharing agreements, so that negotiations may be more fruitful.

• Evaluate the different types of risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements.

• Learn from detailed case studies of the activities of leading drug developers and CROs.

• Gain insight into to optimal conditions for risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements and their outlook to 2016.

Research and analysis highlights

Risk sharing/innovative contracting agreements are becoming more popular, although many companies are not yet able to structure effective relationships. Successful agreements can be extremely beneficial for both drug developers and CROs, however, unsuccessful relationships can significantly impact either or both companies' businesses.

The leading CROs tend to be more flexible and willing to partner than less experienced CROs. The number of risk sharing/innovative contracting agreements is expected to continue to expand strongly, although some types of relationships will be utilized more than others.

Risk sharing/innovative contracting agreements with offshore CROs will experience particularly strong growth as the drug development industries in China and India expand.

Key reasons to purchase this research

• Why are risk sharing agreements between drug developers and CROs becoming more popular?

• What are the key considerations in such agreements for both parties?

• Which types of risk sharing agreements are most popular?

• Which CROs & drug developers are most active in risk sharing?

• What are the typical benefits of risk sharing agreements?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the author 2

Disclaimer 2

Executive Summary 10

The need for risk sharing and innovative contracting with CROs 10

Types of CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 11

Optimizing CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 11

The future of CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 12

Chapter 1 The need for risk sharing and innovative contracting with

CROs 14

Summary 14

Introduction 15

The drug approval process 15

United States 15

Europe 19

Pressures on drug developers 21

Expiring patents on blockbusters 22

Rising usage of generics 22

Decreasing market exclusivity 25

Increased regulatory requirements 25

Declining drug approvals 27

Escalating R&D costs 30

More complicated disease targets 31

Reduced R&D staff 32

Economic issues 33

Rising utilization of CROs 34

Drivers contributing to CRO usage 34

Current CRO usage 37

Shortcomings of conventional CRO agreements 39

Shortcomings for drug developers 40

Shortcomings for CROs 42

Conclusion 43

Chapter 2 Types of CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting

agreements 44

Summary 44

Introduction 45

What is risk sharing? 45

Benefits and challenges for sponsors 46

Benefits 46

Challenges 47

Benefits and challenges for CROs 47

Benefits 47

Challenges 48

Optimum conditions for risk sharing 48

Optimum conditions for sponsors 48

Optimum conditions for CROs 49

Key types of agreements 49

Preferred vendors 51

Case study: GlaxoSmithKline 52

Functional service providers 54

Case study: Perceptive Informatics 55

Risk sharers 55

Case study: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries 57

Case study: PPD 58

Alliance partners 60

Case study: Parexel 61

Drug licensors 62

Case study: Almac Group 62

Joint venture partners 63

Case study: Lilly 64

Contract research alliance partners 65

Case study: ICON 68

Conclusion 69

Chapter 3 Optimizing CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting

agreements 70

Summary 70

Introduction 71

Risks and risk reduction (small molecule drugs) 71

Risks for sponsors 71

Confidentiality and intellectual property 71

CRO staffing and turnover 73

CRO volatility and/or financial stability 74

Higher priority projects for the CRO 75

Risks for CROs 76

Pricing 76

Technology 77

Offshore risk sharing alliances (small molecule drugs) 77

Risks for sponsors 81

Heightened intellectual property risks 81

Legal complexity 83

Differing regulatory regimes 84

Infrastructure 85

Risks for CROs 86

Communication and expectations 86

Case study: Pfizer 89

Biotech risk sharing alliances (large molecule drugs) 91

Risks for sponsors 92

Technology risk 92

Increased company volatility risk 94

Third party risk 94

Risks for CROs 95

Technology risk 95

Case study: Covance 95

Case study: Oxford BioTherapeutics 96

Compensation and pricing issues 98

Case study: Novotech 99

Case study: aaiPharma 101

Risk sharing best practices 102

Case study: Otsuka 102

Case study: Quintiles 104

Innovative partnering history 105

Current partnering activity 105

Typical relationships 106

Initiating innovative relationships 109

Implementing innovative relationships 110

Maintaining innovative relationships 111

Conclusion 112

Chapter 4 The future of CRO risk sharing and innovative contracting

agreements 114

Summary 114

Introduction 115

Current limitations to innovative contracting agreements 115

Drivers of increased innovative contracting agreements 116

How the future of outsourced research will change 120

Near term: 2012 - 2013 121

Predictions for risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 122

Long term: 2014 - 2016 123

Predictions for risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 124

Expected evolution of innovative contracting agreements 125

Preferred vendors 126

Functional service providers 127

Risk sharers 127

Alliance partners 127

Drug licensers 128

Joint venture partners 128

Contract research alliance partners 128

Preparing for the future 129

Conclusion 130

Appendix 131

Scope 131

Methodology 131

Primary research 131

Secondary research 131

Glossary/Abbreviations 132

Table of figures

Figure 1: US and 5EU ratios of drug sales volumes of branded vs. generics, 2005-09 24

Figure 2: US R&D spending vs. new Active Substance approvals, 1990 - 2010 29

Figure 3: Advantages of CRO usage by product stage 37

Figure 4: Growth of CRO usage by segment, 2010 - 2015 39

Figure 5: Comparison of leading risk sharing/innovative contracting relationships 51

Figure 6: Pharmaceutical Contract Research Alliance partnerships 67

Figure 7: Comparison of leading risks for sponsors and CROs, and impact of risk sharing/innovative

contracting relationships 72

Figure 8: Capabilities of leading offshore R&D outsourcing venues 80

Figure 9: Comparison of leading risks for sponsors and offshore CROs, and impact of risk

sharing/innovative contracting relationships 81

Figure 10: Comparison of leading risks for sponsors and biotech CROs, and impact of risk

sharing/innovative contracting relationships 93

Figure 11: Calculation of expected total compensation in risk sharing agreements 100

Figure 12: Relative usage and growth of different types of risk sharing and innovative contracting

agreements 126

Table of tables

Table 1: Revenues and patent expirations for selected companies' blockbusters, 2010 23

Table 2: US New Active Substance approvals, 2000 - 2010 28

Table 3: US spending per New Active Substance approval, 1990 - 2010 29

Table 4: Benefits to CROs and sponsors of leading risk sharing/innovative contracting relationships

50

Table 5: R&D productivity for GlaxoSmithKline, 2000 - 2010 53

Table 6: R&D Productivity for Lilly, 2000 - 2010 65

Table 7: Common sources of East/West miscommunication 88

Table 8: R&D productivity for Pfizer, 2000 - 2010 90

Table 9: Best practices for risk sharing and innovative contracting agreements 103

Table 10: Key reasons for dissatisfaction in contract R&D relationships 111

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