Intermune Inc. plans to resubmit its new drug application (NDA) for Esbriet (pirfenidone) for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in the third quarter of this year, based on home run phase III data from a trial called ASCEND that sent the company’s shares into the upper altitudes. Given a six-month review, Esbriet could hit the U.S. market as early as the second quarter of 2015.