Clinigen Group plc (Clinigen or Group), the global pharmaceutical and services company, announced that its Idis Global Access (GA) division has signed an exclusive supply agreement with Galen Ltd (Galen), a privately owned pharmaceutical sales and marketing company.

Under the terms of the supply agreement, Idis GA will provide Galen’s chemotherapy drug DaunoXome to healthcare professionals on an on-demand basis in 20 European countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, where it is unlicensed at the point of care. Galen has retained the rights to supply DaunoXome in the UK and selected countries outside Europe.

DaunoXome (daunorubicin citrate - 2 mg/ml-concentrate for solution for Infusion) is a sterile pyrogen-free, preservative-free product in a single use vial for intravenous infusion. It has Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval to treat AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma, a rare type of cancer that develops from the cells that line lymph or blood vessels and affects the skin and organs such as the lungs, liver and digestive tract.

Steve Glass, group managing director of Clinigen said “Idis GA is the market leader in providing hospital pharmacists with safe, compliant and global on-demand access to medicines like DaunoXome, which are unlicensed at the patient’s point of care. This is our first exclusive supply agreement since Clinigen’s acquisition of Idis in 2015 and an important part of Idis GA’s ongoing strategy to increase the number of product agreements to better meet patients unmet needs.”

“Working alongside Galen, we can provide Healthcare Professionals with on-demand access to a medicine that would otherwise be unavailable to them. This agreement enables us to leverage our expertise and international network to ensure that physicians in key European markets receive the right medicine at the right time to better treat their patients.”