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2020-01-27

Helsinn Grants Exclusive Licensing Rights to Berlin-Chemie Menarini, for ONICIT®/ALOXI® and AKYNZEO® in Russia and CIS region

 

  • Berlin-Chemie AG has been granted exclusive rights to import, distribute, promote, market and sell AKYNZEO® and ONICIT® (ALOXI®) in Russia and CIS region from January 2020
  • The two products will provide clinicians and patients with a comprehensive offering to manage chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

Lugano, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2020: Helsinn Group (“Helsinn”), a Swiss pharmaceutical group focused on building quality cancer care products, has granted exclusive licensing rights to commercialize AKYNZEO® and ONICIT® (ALOXI®) in Russia and the CIS region for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) to Berlin-Chemie AG (“Berlin-Chemie”), the German-based affiliate of the Menarini Group.

AKYNZEO®, a fixed dose combination anti-emetic therapy targeting both critical pathways of acute and delayed CINV, was granted registration in Russia in October 2019 and the product will be launched in the country in 2020.

ONICIT®, an anti-emetic for the prevention of CINV, was registered in Russia in 2011 and will be relaunched with AKYNZEO®.

Besides Russia, the licensing agreements with Berlin-Chemie cover the following territories: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. AKYNZEO® has obtained a registration in Ukraine and Kazakhstan while ALOXI® holds a registration in Ukraine.

Under the terms of the agreements, Helsinn will retain all international development rights, including clinical development activities, and the supply of AKYNZEO® and ONICIT/®ALOXI®. Berlin-Chemie will have the exclusive rights to promote, distribute and commercialize AKYNZEO® and ONICIT®/ALOXI® in all countries of the assigned territories.

Riccardo Braglia, Helsinn Group Vice Chairman and CEO commented: “We’re delighted to have signed these agreements with Berlin-Chemie, which has established a strong presence and recognition in Russia and the CIS region. We look forward to being able to offer cancer patients greater choice for treating CINV, which remains a major issue during chemotherapy.”

“This is an important step for cancer patients across Russia and the CIS region. We look forward to working closely with Helsinn as we seek to launch AKYNZEO® and re-launch ONICIT® in the year ahead. We have been impressed by Helsinn’s commitment to the highest quality cancer care products and are pleased to extend our partnership with them.” said Michael Sirotovitch, COO of Berlin-Chemie AG.

 
 

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Please be aware that certain individuals might approach you by falsely presenting themselves as our employees, affiliates, agents or representatives. Under this false pretense, they might try to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money or other valuables from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on our behalf. The contacting individual or organisation may, for example, claim that we can guarantee your employment if you pay them a certain amount of money. Such fraudulent offers and claims are usually received via email, the internet, text message, phone, etc. These claims and offers are fraudulent and invalid and you are strongly advised to exercise great caution when you receive such an offer of employment or notice. Be very mindful of such scams.Below we list some of the features such an offer or claim may have:

Below we list some of the features such an offer or claim may have:

• It may propose a phone or instant message program interview and/or money as a precondition for hiring You may be requested to disclose private, sensitive or confidential information

• You may be told that you were contacted in such a manner because it is a matter of urgency

Such an offer or claim will probably be in the form of an email sent from a fake email address or from a free email address and not from an official Menarini Group email address. Please take extra caution while examining such an email address, as the perpetrators may misspell an official Menarini Group email address and use a slightly modified version of an official Menarini Group email address.

Please note that you will never receive a fraudulent employment offer or any other similar claim from us, because we do not provide any recruitment services. Moreover, we will never ask you for money in exchange for employment opportunities or other similar services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.

Criminal and/or civil liabilities may arise from such actions and we intend to cooperate with competent law enforcement agencies. Accordingly, we would ask you to immediately get in touch with us upon receiving a suspicious offer or claim and additionally notify the police or other competent authority.

In any case, please disregard any written or oral request related to a job offer or an interview that you believe is or might be fraudulent or suspicious.

Please note that under no circumstances shall Menarini Group be held liable or responsible for any claims, losses, damages, expenses or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to the actions of these imposters.