Faes Farma licenses Indian rights to bilastine to Merck Serono

23 March 2009

Spanish drugmaker Faes Farma has licensed the rights to sell its antihistamine bilastine in India to Merck Serono, the drugs unit of  Germany's Merck KGaA. India is Asia's third-largest pharmaceutical  market, with a 10% growth rate and an emerging economy of 1.2 billion  people. The drug for allergic rhinitis and chronic urticaria was filed  for approval with European regulators on February 27, with Germany as  the European Union reference member state. Faes has assigned rights to  bilastine to privately-held Italian pharmaceutical company Menarini in  51 countries (Marketletter December 24, 2007).

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