The second quarter of 2025 picked up where the first quarter left off with a somewhat muted novel drug approval landscape. Q1’s total of seven novel drug approvals was low by recent standards and Q2’s nine approvals are not a step change. Moreover, commercial expectations for the Q2 cohort are lower, based on Evaluate Pharma forecasts for sales in 2030 (Table 1).
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