Pfizer has bolstered its central nervous system (CNS) drugs portfolio with a $1.2 billion deal to claim rights outside the US to Biohaven's Nurtec ODT, an oral therapy for migraine.
AbbVie has added a third drug to its arsenal in the crowded migraine market, getting FDA approval for Qulipta – its once-daily oral preventive therapy for episodic migraines.
Biohaven's key pipeline drug verdiperstat has failed to have any Therapeutic effect in patients with the rare neurological disorder multiple system atrophy (MSA) – its lead indication – but