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Artesunate vaginal insert — Competitive Intelligence Brief

Artesunate vaginal insert (Artesunate vaginal insert) competitive landscape: 6 comparators, recent regulatory actions, upcoming PDUFA, patent timeline. Class: Antimalarial. Area: Infectious Disease.

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Target snapshot

Artesunate vaginal insert (Artesunate vaginal insert) — Frantz Viral Therapeutics, LLC. Artesunate is a derivative of artemisinin that targets the heme moiety of the malaria parasite, disrupting its 80-kDa protein.

Comparator set (6 drugs)

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DrugGenericSponsorPhaseClassTargetApproval / PDUFA
Artesunate vaginal insert TARGET Artesunate vaginal insert Frantz Viral Therapeutics, LLC phase 2 Antimalarial Heme moiety of the malaria parasite
Coartem LUMEFANTRINE Novartis marketed Antimalarial [EPC] Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2 2009-01-01
Coartem ARTEMETHER marketed Antimalarial [EPC] 2009-01-01
Qualaquin QUININE Sun Pharm Industries marketed Antimalarial Sodium channel alpha subunits; brain (Types I, II, III) 2005-01-01
Malarone PROGUANIL GSK marketed Antimalarial [EPC] 2000-01-01
Halfan HALOFANTRINE GSK marketed Antimalarial Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2 1992-01-01
Mepron ATOVAQUONE marketed Antimalarial [EPC] ATP-binding cassette sub-family G member 2 1992-01-01

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this set.

Patent timeline (forward window)

No upcoming patent expiries for this set.

Sponsor landscape (Antimalarial class)

  1. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · 6 drugs in this class
  2. Sanofi · 3 drugs in this class
  3. Epicentre · 2 drugs in this class
  4. University of Oxford · 2 drugs in this class
  5. · 2 drugs in this class
  6. Frantz Viral Therapeutics, LLC · 1 drug in this class
  7. Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · 1 drug in this class
  8. Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement · 1 drug in this class
  9. Centre de Recherche Médicale de Lambaréné · 1 drug in this class
  10. GlaxoSmithKline · 1 drug in this class

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Cite this brief

Drug Landscape (2026). Artesunate vaginal insert — Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/artesunate-vaginal-insert. Accessed 2026-05-21.

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