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ARTICLE | Product Development

Target diversity creates opportunity in chronic urticaria 

Undeterred by Dupixent’s recent approval, at least 16 programs against seven targets are in clinical trials for urticaria

September 4, 2025 12:56 AM UTC

Dupixent’s April approval marked the first new targeted therapy for chronic urticaria in over a decade, while opening the door to a pipeline of agents pursuing mechanisms beyond IgE inhibition.

With at least seven therapeutic mechanisms in play, the urticaria pipeline shows companies see multiple avenues to improve on today’s options. Efforts focus on faster or more durable symptom relief, oral delivery, and treatments for patients who don’t respond to existing drugs...