The profits cover the cost of finding the next blockbuster drug.
"It's always been difficult to predict the next blockbuster drug," he said.
"We believe this will be a blockbuster drug," he said.
In a recent conversation, he discussed what it takes to create a blockbuster drug today.
"There is a push for novel, innovative, blockbuster drugs, and to be the first or second to market."
Sales of the top 20 blockbuster drugs are reported in Table 6.
The company has yet to develop blockbuster drugs to replace them.
Now, though, the flight path of these blockbuster drugs has been aborted.
Some analysts believe this to be a potential blockbuster drug.
Q. Some say the era of the blockbuster drug is dead.