Vitiligo - Pipeline Insight, 2024

DelveInsight's, "Vitiligo - Pipeline Insight, 2024" report provides comprehensive insights about 20+ companies and 20+ pipeline drugs in Vitiligo pipeline landscape. It covers the pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and nonclinical stage products. It also covers the therapeutics assessment by product type, stage, route of administration, and molecule type. It further highlights the inactive pipeline products in this space.

Geography Covered:

• Global coverage

Vitiligo: Understanding

Vitiligo: Overview

Vitiligo is a complex pigment disorder that involves the skin, hair, and occasionally the mucous membranes. It is a long-term condition where pale white patches develop on the skin. Vitiligo can affect any area of skin, but it commonly happens on the face, neck, and hands. Vitiligo appears clinically as milk-white irregularly oval patches of skin, which are small at the beginning but enlarge gradually. The hair growing in the depigmented area is also white. Vitiligo can be triggered by stress to the melanin pigment-producing cells of the skin, the melanocytes. The triggers, which range from sunburn to mechanical trauma and chemical exposures, ultimately cause an autoimmune response that targets melanocytes, driving progressive skin depigmentation. Vitiligo is a multifactorial disorder characterized by the loss of functional melanocytes. Multiple mechanisms have been proposed for melanocyte destruction in vitiligo. These include genetic, autoimmune responses, oxidative stress, generation of inflammatory mediators, and melanocyte detachment mechanisms. Both innate and adaptive immunity of the immune system appear to play a role.

The diagnosis of vitiligo is primarily made on clinical grounds and is based on history, clinical presentation, and family history (vitiligo, autoimmune disorders). The most extensively characterized clinical markers of active, progressive disease include: Koebner's phenomenon, trichrome lesions, inflammatory lesions, and confetti-like depigmentation. The optimal treatment of vitiligo will first depend on the subtype of the disease, percent of body surface area (BSA) involved, effect on quality of life, and the perception of the patient concerning the risk to benefit ratio. These treatments include phototherapy, topical and systemic immunosuppressants, and surgical techniques, stabilizing depigmented lesions and stimulating repigmentation. A successful treatment regimen to treat vitiligo incorporates three distinct approaches: reducing melanocytes stress, regulating the autoimmune response, and stimulating melanocyte regeneration.

Medicines or medicated skin creams, such as corticosteroids or a calcineurin inhibitor, may be able to return color to the white patches of skin. Light therapy or phototherapy is the treatment to help return color to your skin. There are several different forms of light therapy. Doctors may use light boxes to treat large areas of vitiligo and use laser treatments on more localized areas. Depigmentation therapy removes the color of your natural skin tone to match areas of your skin affected with vitiligo. Surgical treatment could include skin graft or cell transplant. It is important to remember that treatments may take time, and not everyone responds. In addition, the results from treatments can vary from one part of the body to another, and new patches may appear in the meantime. Sometimes, doctors will recommend more than one treatment to get the best results.

"Vitiligo- Pipeline Insight, 2024" report by DelveInsight outlays comprehensive insights of present scenario and growth prospects across the indication. A detailed picture of the Vitiligo pipeline landscape is provided which includes the disease overview and Vitiligo treatment guidelines. The assessment part of the report embraces, in depth Vitiligo commercial assessment and clinical assessment of the pipeline products under development. In the report, detailed description of the drug is given which includes mechanism of action of the drug, clinical studies, NDA approvals (if any), and product development activities comprising the technology, Vitiligo collaborations, licensing, mergers and acquisition, funding, designations and other product related details.

Report Highlights:

• The companies and academics are working to assess challenges and seek opportunities that could influence Vitiligo R&D. The therapies under development are focused on novel approaches to treat/improve Vitiligo.

Vitiligo Emerging Drugs Chapters

This segment of the Vitiligo report encloses its detailed analysis of various drugs in different stages of clinical development, including Phase III, II, I, Preclinical and Discovery. It also helps to understand clinical trial details, expressive pharmacological action, agreements and collaborations, and the latest news and press releases.

Vitiligo Emerging Drugs

• Povorcitinib: Incyte

Povorcitinib (INCB54707) is an oral, highly selective Janus kinase 1 (JAK1) inhibitor, with a 52-fold greater affinity for JAK1 over JAK2. Its mechanism of action involves inhibiting JAK1-mediated cytokine signaling, a key pathway in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) inflammation. By targeting JAK1, povorcitinib reduces pro-inflammatory cytokines, alleviating symptoms and improving disease outcomes in HS. Currently, it is in Phase III clinical trials for HS and vitiligo.

• AMG-714: Amgen

AMG-714, a fully human immunoglobulin monoclonal antibody (IgG1κ), binds to and inhibits the function of IL-15 in all of its forms (Cis, Trans, and soluble IL-15 bound to IL-15RA), and blocks IL-15-induced T cell proliferation. Currently, the drug is in Phase II stage of its clinical trial for the treatment of Vitiligo.

• AB1001: Ahammune Biosciences

AB1001, an investigational new drug by Ahammune Biosciences for vitiligo treatment. Vitiligo, characterized by an autoimmune attack on melanocytes leading to white skin patches, currently has limited treatment options. Preclinical studies indicate AB1001's potential to halt disease progression and aid repigmentation in animal models, with phase I clinical trials demonstrating excellent safety and tolerability in human volunteers. Currently, the drug is in Phase I stage of its clinical trial for the treatment of Vitiligo.

Further product details are provided in the report........

Vitiligo: Therapeutic Assessment

This segment of the report provides insights about the different Vitiligo drugs segregated based on following parameters that define the scope of the report, such as:

• Major Players in Vitiligo
• There are approx. 20+ key companies which are developing the therapies for Vitiligo. The companies which have their Vitiligo drug candidates in the most advanced stage, i.e. Phase III include, Incyte.
• Phases

DelveInsight's report covers around 20+ products under different phases of clinical development like

• Late stage products (Phase III)
• Mid-stage products (Phase II)
• Early-stage product (Phase I) along with the details of
• Pre-clinical and Discovery stage candidates
• Discontinued & Inactive candidates
• Route of Administration

Vitiligo pipeline report provides the therapeutic assessment of the pipeline drugs by the Route of Administration. Products have been categorized under various ROAs such as

• Oral
• Intravenous
• Subcutaneous
• Parenteral
• Topical
• Molecule Type

Products have been categorized under various Molecule types such as

• Recombinant fusion proteins
• Small molecule
• Monoclonal antibody
• Peptide
• Polymer
• Gene therapy
• Product Type

Drugs have been categorized under various product types like Mono, Combination and Mono/Combination.

Vitiligo: Pipeline Development Activities

The report provides insights into different therapeutic candidates in phase II, I, preclinical and discovery stage. It also analyses Vitiligo therapeutic drugs key players involved in developing key drugs.

Pipeline Development Activities

The report covers the detailed information of collaborations, acquisition and merger, licensing along with a thorough therapeutic assessment of emerging Vitiligo drugs.

Vitiligo Report Insights

• Vitiligo Pipeline Analysis
• Therapeutic Assessment
• Unmet Needs
• Impact of Drugs

Vitiligo Report Assessment

• Pipeline Product Profiles
• Therapeutic Assessment
• Pipeline Assessment
• Inactive drugs assessment
• Unmet Needs

Key Questions:

Current Treatment Scenario and Emerging Therapies:

• How many companies are developing Vitiligo drugs?
• How many Vitiligo drugs are developed by each company?
• How many emerging drugs are in mid-stage, and late-stage of development for the treatment of Vitiligo?
• What are the key collaborations (Industry-Industry, Industry-Academia), Mergers and acquisitions, licensing activities related to the Vitiligo therapeutics?
• What are the recent trends, drug types and novel technologies developed to overcome the limitation of existing therapies?
• What are the clinical studies going on for Vitiligo and their status?
• What are the key designations that have been granted to the emerging drugs?

Key Players

• AbbVie
• Pfizer
• Incyte Corporation
• Ahammune Biosciences
• Amgen

Key Products

• Upadacitinib
• Ritlecitinib
• Povorcitinib
• AB1001
• AMG-714