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Ubrelvy

Ubrogepant

An oral acute medication taken at the onset of migraine headaches to relieve pain.

Generic name
Ubrogepant
Brand name
Ubrelvy
Marketed by
AbbVie
First FDA approval
23 Dec 2019

Where Ubrogepant is approved

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Of the three regulators tracked here, the first to approve Ubrogepant was the US, on 23 Dec 2019. It is approved in 2 of the 3 regulators tracked here.

USUnited States (FDA)
23 Dec 2019
Ubrelvy
NDA211765 on Drugs@FDA
First original NDA/BLA approval
EUEuropean Union (EMA)
No centralised EU authorisation (it may be authorised nationally)
First centralised authorisation
CACanada (Health Canada)
10 Nov 2022
Ubrelvy
Notice of Compliance 29425
First new-drug NOC

From the regulators' own registers: FDA Drugs@FDA, the EMA medicines list and Health Canada's Notice of Compliance database. Dates are the first listed approval of a product containing only this substance; combination products and nationally authorised EU medicines are not counted.

Ubrogepant patents and exclusivity

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Protections still running for marketed products containing Ubrogepant, as listed by the regulators. Expired patents and exclusivities, and discontinued products, are not shown.

US FDA Orange Book Ubrelvy
  • 16 listed patents; the last listed expires 22 Dec 2041 (US 11717515).
See the Orange Book listing for NDA 211765

Reproduced from the FDA Orange Book and Purple Book (checked 12 Oct 2026) and the European Commission's Union Register of medicinal products (CC BY 4.0; the EU expiry date is calculated exactly as the Commission's register displays it). Listed patents and dates are as submitted to or published by the regulator and may not reflect litigation, invalidation, settlements, lapsed fees or later extensions. This is not legal advice or a freedom-to-operate opinion, and it does not say when a generic or biosimilar will launch.

What health systems spend on Ubrogepant

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ENNHS England
Not dispensed in the community in England in the last 12 months under this name
Net ingredient cost, community prescriptions
USUS Medicaid
$391.6m
336,246 prescriptions in 2025 · Ubrelvy
+28% on 2024
Amount Medicaid reimbursed, before rebates

From NHSBSA Prescription Cost Analysis (Open Government Licence v3.0) and CMS State Drug Utilization Data. Both are gross amounts: neither system publishes its discounts or rebates per drug. Products combining several substances are not counted here.

How Ubrogepant works

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  • Calcitonin gene-related peptide type 1 receptor antagonist Antagonist
    Target: CALCRL calcitonin receptor like receptor
    ✓ In ChEMBL and the Guide to Pharmacology
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Mechanisms and diseases from ChEMBL via the Open Targets Platform (release 26.09), ChEMBL record CHEMBL2364638, CC BY-SA 3.0. Targets checked against the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (2026.3), ligand 10176, CC BY-SA 4.0. Trial phases are not approvals: approved uses are shown from the regulators' own records where we hold them.

Patient leaflets for Ubrogepant

The package leaflet is the official guide for patients that comes with every medicine. These links go to the regulators that publish it.

  • UK
    United Kingdom: Search MHRA Products
    Patient information leaflets and SmPCs for UK-licensed products.
  • US
    United States: Search DailyMed
    FDA-approved labels, including patient and medication guides.

Leaflets differ between brands and countries; always read the one that comes with your own medicine. This is regulatory information, not medical advice.

Reference identifiers for Ubrogepant

ChEMBL
CHEMBL2364638
DrugBank
DB15328
PubChem CID
68748835
CAS number
1374248-77-7
FDA UNII
AD0O8X2QJR
Wikidata
Q27273878
Wikipedia
Ubrogepant

Codes that identify this medicine in other databases, from Wikidata (CC0), matched by its ChEMBL ID. The ATC code is the WHO classification of what the medicine is used for.

What Ubrelvy is used for

Ubrogepant (Ubrelvy) is an oral acute medication taken at the onset of migraine headaches to relieve pain. It belongs to the CGRP receptor antagonist class.

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Plain-English summaries and drug-class explainers are written and reviewed by Sreepriya Prasannan (MSc Digital Transformation of Life Sciences (Innopharma Education / Griffith College); MSc & BSc Botany). Data is retrieved automatically from the sources above and cross-checked with AI-assisted verification (Anthropic's Claude) — brand and generic names are matched against the exact FDA product record so that a combination product or a different formulation cannot be mistaken for the drug on this page. An editor reviews the result before publication. We describe this in full in our editorial standards and corrections policy. The FDA data on this page was last retrieved on 7 Oct 2026. How every register is built: methodology · fixes we have made: corrections log.

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