Vlad Coric, Biohaven chariman and CEO

As Bio­haven CEO Coric preps FDA fil­ing for new mi­graine spray, he's al­ready scout­ing for celebri­ty spokesper­son

Days af­ter re­port­ing pos­i­tive Phase III re­sults for in­tranasal mi­graine med za­veg­epant, Bio­haven chair­man and CEO Vlad Coric is talk­ing about mar­ket­ing plans. It’s a month or more be­fore Bio­haven will file for FDA ap­proval and like­ly a year be­fore launch, but Coric is al­ready think­ing about mes­sag­ing and com­mer­cial­iza­tion.

His plan? A dual strat­e­gy to at­tract po­ten­tial pa­tients around speed to re­lief – za­veg­epant study re­sults show the spray can pro­vide re­lief in as fast as 15 min­utes and a re­turn to nor­mal in 30 min­utes – along with a sec­ondary an­ti-nau­sea ben­e­fit in us­ing an in­tranasal ver­sus a pill.

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