Acquisitions Help Jazz Build Toward Commercial Crescendo

Jazz Pharmaceuticals has been successful at building and commercializing a growing pipeline of therapies to treat rare neurologic conditions and hematologic cancers. Central to its strategy has been the use of acquisitions to build its pipeline. In fact, we should note that since recording this podcast, the company continued that approach with news that it would acquire GW Pharmaceuticals for $7.2 billion to expand its neuroscience portfolio. We spoke to Robert Iannone, executive vice president of research and development and chief medical officer of Jazz about the company’s neuroscience pipeline, its growing family of commercial products, and how its preparing to maintain its leadership in the treatment of the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy as new competitors move toward market.