New Type 1 Diabetes competitive landscape map released by TechAtlas Group

Sep 6 2013

TechAtlas Group has announced the release of the latest Type 1 Diabetes (T1DM) competitive landscape map. This particular landscape highlights 71 international companies with over 140 drugs and devices currently on the market and in development.

Topics include:

• Save the cells: immune therapies for T1DM
• Beta-cell regeneration strategies
• Pancreatic replacement via cell-based therapy
• Therapeutic considerations: childhood, adolescence, adulthood & older adults
• Managing hypoglycemia: new pens and bi-hormonal systems
• Competitive positioning in the insulin market
• Non-insulin add-on therapies for tighter glycemic control
• Strategic implications of artificial pancreas development

TechAtlas' analysts have evaluated each clinical asset according to the parameters that dictate their commercial competitiveness, including clinical benefit/risk, cost, patient preference, and reimbursement dynamics. For example, competition in this field is driving the creation of longer-lasting (7+ days use), slimmer CGMs to increase patient acceptance. However, the need for frequent finger-stick blood glucose calibrations presents a critical obstacle to CGM use, which will only be resolved by significant technical advances that lower the mean absolute relative difference (MARD) of the CGMs. Meanwhile, new stable glucagon formulations are laying the foundation for better hypoglycemic control by facilitating simpler rescue pen systems and, more importantly, bi-hormonal delivery pumps that will contribute to the "holy grail" – a fully independent artificial pancreas system.

The TechAtlas map graphically presents every T1DM-related technology, old and new, in its proper context to clearly show the relationship of competing and complementary products for specific unmet needs and ideal treatment paradigms like T1DM prevention and development of the artificial pancreas. This map was built on extensive primary research, including interviews with companies, investors, key opinion leaders in the diabetes community, academic researchers, technical experts, consumers of technologies, and other stakeholders in the field, as well as an exhaustive review of public and proprietary resources.

TechAtlas Group's current subscribers have reported that their researchers, business development executives, and senior management have used the maps to guide their business development efforts, R&D resource allocation, and competitive positioning.

Some of the 71 companies featured on the TechAtlas T1DM landscape include: Eli Lilly, Evotec AG, Exsulin Corp., Fate Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, Living Cell Technologies Ltd., Medistem, Inc., NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Novo Nordisk A/S, Sanofi, Sernova Corp., and Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.