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Depression
Opportunity Overview
Depression is a mood disorder that affects the thoughts and behavior
of an individual, leading to psychological, physical, and social problems
First onset
depression
(MDD)
Persistent
depression
(MDD)
Depression in numbers
Treatment
resistant
depression
(TRD)
Treatment resistant
depression (TRD) is
diagnosed after two failed
courses of antidepressants
~300m
Global sufferers of depression
2nd
Leading cause of disability
worldwide (2019)²
~$300bn
U.S. economic burden from adults
with MDD (direct + indirect costs)³
(1) World Health Organization (2020)
(2) World Health Organization - Disease Burden 2000-2019 (2020)
(3) Greenberg et al., "The Economic Burden of Adults with Major Depressive Disorder in the United States (2010 and 2018)" (2021)
(4) Al-Harbi et al., "Treatment-resistant depression: therapeutic trends, challenges, and future directions" (2012)
URGENT NEED FOR INNOVATION
-30%
Up to
12 weeks
-38%
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Inadequate response rate
A third of patients with depression respond inadequately or
relapse with current treatments and are classified as "treatment
resistant" 4
Slow onset of treatment effect
Frontline SSRI treatments for depression have slow onset (4-12w)5
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Long-term side effects
Over a third of patients experience one or more side effects as a
result of SSRI antidepressants
FDA approvals since 2017
Only 7 new drugs approved by the FDA for depression since
2017, less than 6% relative to oncology (N=116)'
(5) Tew et al., "Impact of prior treatment exposure on response to antidepressant treatment in late life" Am J Geriatr Psychiatry (2006)
(6) Cascade et al., "Real-World Data on SSRI Antidepressant Side Effects Psychiatry MMC (2009)
(7) GlobalData (as of 12.09.2022). Excludes generics and biosimilarsView entire presentation