Vivek Ra­maswamy’s Urovant claims a big win in PhI­II — but ques­tions linger about a cheap gener­ic and their brand­ed ri­val

Af­ter the great Ax­o­vant im­plo­sion that swept away its high­ly tout­ed Alzheimer’s drug, Roivant chief Vivek Ra­maswamy need­ed one of the biotechs in his fast-grow­ing league of drug de­vel­op­ers to win a big Phase III tri­al. Based on to­day’s top-line re­lease for Urovant’s Phase III uri­nary in­con­ti­nence drug vibegron, the team is claim­ing that vic­to­ry and prep­ping an ap­pli­ca­tion for the FDA.

But there are some lin­ger­ing ques­tions about the cheap gener­ic that was used as an ac­tive com­para­tor in the study, and it’s dri­ving the biotech’s stock in­to the red Tues­day morn­ing.

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