Tony Hagen

Biocon tests the waters with itolizumab in pandemic-ravaged India, and Celltrion announces early success with an agent for the South African variant.

There's no end in sight for Enbrel (etanercept) sales erosion, but Amgen's biosimilars are holding their own, the company reported.

The results of Voltaire-X could persuade the FDA to authorize automatic substitution of the adalimumab biosimilar Cyltezo for its reference product (Humira), investigators believe.

How much muscle did Congress invest in a pair of bills recently signed by President Biden? The answer may lie in your willingness to believe.

Investigators tapped health system data to conduct an observational, real-world comparison of bevacizumab (Mvasi) vs the reference product (Avastin).

Medicinal packaging shouldn't remind patients that they have a condition, according to Samsung Bioepis.

The European Union is a diverse market with pockets of biosimilar resistance but also cost-saving triumphs, panelists said at the Biosimilar Medicines Virtual Summit 2021.

Following the lead of British Columbia and Alberta, New Brunswick, a heavily forested province located between Nova Scotia and Quebec, hopes to save on biologics.

Roche has begun another year of biosimilar sales erosion, although the company has said this year will not be as bad as 2020.

More disclosures, earlier in the biosimilar application process, might lead to more competition in biologics, but panelists said this could go too far.

Weaker persistency and strong adherence were observed among patients taking biosimilar forms of epoetin alfa and infliximab, among others.

Anticipating roughly $26 million in annual savings, British Columbia's public payer PharmaCare is switching patients away from originator Humira.

Study authors measured savings, conversions to biosimilars, and payer policies for 3 originator brands

Russia's land area is vast relative to its population, but Prestige Biopharma eyes an ample market for its bevacizumab biosimilar candidate (HD204).

US senators hope to spread the word about biosimilars and limit product exclusivity protections to those products that truly deserve them.

New York Medicaid achieved 78% to 94% biosimilar utilization for 4 originator brands during a focused effort in 2019.

This is the second of a 2-part series on a study from the independent research center NORC at University of Chicago concerning biosimilar acceptance and uptake.

This is the first of a 2-part series on a study from the independent research center NORC at University of Chicago concerning biosimilar acceptance and uptake.

Shanghai Henlius Biotech says the market for a checkpoint inhibitor in China is wide open, and Biogen and Bio-Thera stake out a global map for their tocilizumab biosimilar.

Next-stage biosimlar acceptance will stand on the strength and availability of real-world data as more of these biologics are launched, a Community Oncology Alliance (COA) conference panel said.

Calls for price regulation and lopsided incentives are threats to biosimilar progress, Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Executive Director Ted Okon argues.

PlantForm will use tobacco plants to develop antibodies for its checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab biosimilar.

Shanghai Henlius Biotech began as a 2-person enterprise in 2010 and now has multiple oncology products in development and 3 biosimilars on the market. An executive discusses its business trajectory.

Seeking to develop a biosimilar portfolio, Stada Arzneimittel has launched Oyavas in Germany and the Netherlands.

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency issued a thumbs up for a subcutaneous (SC) infliximab biosimilar candidate from Celltrion.

Insulin is not a complex drug, but churning it out in massive quantities at high levels of purity is one of the main hurdles inhibiting biosimilar competition, panelists said.

Potential developers of orphan drug biosimilars face daunting challenges to get these drugs approved and onto market, said a panel of experts.

Regulators want built-in flexibility, and that benefits biosimilar developers, but there can be a price for this amount of latitude, panelists said.

A renowned expert on the life sciences industry in the United Kingdom provides an insightful look at Brexit and the importance for the pharmaceutical sector.

The company claims in a suit that a former employee transferred high-concentration adalimumab trade secrets to his laptop and took those to a new job with Alvotech.