ALK CEO on peanut allergy competitors: "They might have been the first, but that does not necessarily mean they are the best"

In 2022, allergy group ALK is initiating a peanut allergy market effort, an area that the companies Aimmune and DBV Technologies have long been targeting. Their results have been less prominent, and all they’re doing is opening the door for more threatening competition, says President and CEO at ALK Carsten Hellmann.
Photo: Gregers Tycho/Ritzau/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Gregers Tycho/Ritzau/Ritzau Scanpix
BY ALBERT RØNNING-ANDERSSON, TRANSLATED BY DANIEL PEDERSEN

It created a buzz when the allergy group ALK announced in February that it would initiate a massive venture within food allergy, which is a massive market, far bigger than that ALK’s well-trodden territory of respiratory allergies.

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