Our Strategy

Our Strategic
Priorities

More energy –
Growing and delivering

The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop and bring more, innovative medicines to patients. To achieve this, we will develop Idorsia into one of Europe’s leading biopharmaceutical companies, with a strong scientific core.

We have identified five key strategic priorities to ensure the company’s success over the first five years.

Promising compounds

We have a diversified and balanced clinical development pipeline that cover multiple therapeutic areas, including CNS, cardiovascular and immunological disorders, as well as orphan diseases.

We bring new perspectives to the development of innovative compounds, challenging accepted paradigms to answer the questions that matter to patients.

“With patients at the heart of our process, our key assets have the potential to transform treatment in the target indications.”

- Guy Braunstein, Head of Global Clinical Development

From bench to bedside

A long-term strategic perspective is vital to ensure that our drugs address important healthcare challenges. A smart company must adopt creative approaches to delivering its medicines to patients.

To maximize the benefit of our pioneering therapies for patients, we will foster strategic partnerships and build our own commercial infrastructure to provide access to our drugs in selected therapeutic fields.

“Idorsia has the ideal constellation for bringing successful medicines to the market.”

- Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO

Becoming a sustainable company

We are building Idorsia with a long-term focus and ambitious aspirations. We will run the company in a responsible and sustainable way.

Idorsia has the potential to generate significant revenues from product sales once the first of its pipeline candidates has received regulatory approval for commercialization. In the meantime, Idorsia has generated revenue through a milestone payment from its collaboration with Janssen on the co-development and commercialization of aprocitentan; this collaboration could also generate royalty payments. Furthermore, Idorsia could benefit from revenue-sharing payments relating to potential sales of ponesimod.

We are providing a supportive and stimulating environment for high-performing teams, recognizing and rewarding their contributions.

“We have a diverse pipeline with unique assets that have significant potential for patients. We must invest in this pipeline in order to make Idorsia a profitable company, in a sustainable manner.”

- André C. Muller, CFO

Building a bright future

insomnia gets in the way of everything — Idorsia aims to create a clinical development pipeline of assets with a sales potential of at least CHF 5 billion.

Idorsia is a high-potential biopharmaceutical company with a balanced portfolio of innovative drugs. As our assets advance and reach the market, there will be a need to constantly replenish the pipeline with innovative compounds. This is where our highly productive drug-discovery engine creates opportunities.

We are passionate and curious scientists, determined to help patients function better, feel better and live longer. Our drug discovery focuses on creating small molecules that are active on well-selected molecular targets. Knowledge built through the development of drugs active on one target can often benefit projects in several therapeutic areas.

Our focus on disorders with a high medical need means that our discoveries create significant value for patients, payors and society in general.

“Our approach: novel projects that answer medical problems in groundbreaking ways, balanced with less risky projects where we have a deep understanding of the disease mechanisms.”

- Martine Clozel, CSO

Utilize state-of-the-art technologies

As we want to remain at the cutting edge of science, it is vital that we consider innovative approaches from bench to bedside. We must integrate computational tools and digital technologies at different stages of the drug discovery, development and commercialization process, to maximize our potential and bring breakthrough medicines to patients.

Idorsia will look for creative ways to harness advances in technology to focus on novel targets and use new drug development methods. All functions of Pharmaceutical Development are streamlined to ensure the delivery of tailored, high-quality medicines. As we establish our commercial infrastructure, we will look for opportunities to use technology to benefit as many patients as possible.

When it comes to our colleagues’ daily life at Idorsia, we also employ pragmatic solutions to minimize the need for bureaucracy. Continuous learning and work–life balance are important engagement drivers to ensure that everyone thrives at Idorsia.

“We must integrate computational tools and digital technologies at every stage of the drug discovery, clinical development and commercialization process in order to maximize our potential to bring breakthrough medicines to patients.”