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Actemra<br />

Potential to become a significant new RA treatment<br />

First-in-class agent<br />

• Humanized monoclonal antibody<br />

blocking the activity of IL-6<br />

• Conclusions from phase III Jap trials<br />

– Impressive efficacy in DMARD<br />

inadequate responders<br />

– Effective as monotherapy<br />

– Well tolerated<br />

Large international phase III program<br />

• 5 registration trials (>4‘000 patients) -<br />

recruitment completed<br />

• Mono and combo therapy<br />

• Patient populations studied:<br />

– MTX inadequate responders<br />

– DMARD inadequate responders<br />

– TNFα inadequate responders<br />

– MTX naïve patients<br />

• First 2 trials (OPTION and TOWARD) met<br />

primary endpoint<br />

• Further clinical data during 2007<br />

Filed in Japan in April 2006<br />

Global filing 2007<br />

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