1Glybera – Price: $1.6 million
First position of the most expensive legal drugs goes to Glybera.
Produced by uniQure, Glybera (alipogene tiparvovec) comes with an outstanding price of $1.6 million.
This medicine is the only gene therapy treatment for the disease that causes severe pancreatitis.
Why does this medicine cost so much? Unlike other drugs, a single injection of the Glybera treatment can provide gene reconstruction for several years.
As some people will say … Science!
