If an older relative of yours has had injections in the eye to protect their sight, there is a fair chance the medicine was EYLEA. If a friend's severe eczema or asthma finally calmed down after years of creams and inhalers, the drug may well have been Dupixent. Few people know the name of the company behind both: Regeneron, which invents, makes and sells medicines of this kind.
For years, EYLEA was Regeneron's main source of income. Now cheaper copies of it are winning patients, and the company is counting on two successors. One is EYLEA HD, a stronger version of the same eye drug. The other is Regeneron's share of the profits from Dupixent, which its partner Sanofi sells around the world. So far, the two successors are keeping up with the decline. Is that strength earned, or borrowed from a passing change in a contract?