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Chelsee Jensen, PharmD, and Eric Tichy, PharmD, MBA, who coauthored a paper on the Mayo Clinic's success with implementing biosimilars, discuss their study and how their practice is expected to evolve to improve its approach.

Gillian Woollett, MA, Dphil, vice president and head of regulatory strategy and policy at Samsung Bioepis, reviews some of the presentations, including her own, from the Festival of Biologics conference.

At a session at the Association of Community Cancer Centers’ 2022 Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit, panelists suggested that the quest for rebates by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) prevents uptake on some biosimilars—and could soon bleed over into biosimilar formulary placement.

There remains risk in the US market due to regulatory and legal hurdles—not to mention a combative political environment, according to executives who gathered last week during the “CEOs Unplugged” session at Access! 2022, held by the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) in Orlando.

Purva Rawal, PhD, senior advisor and chief strategy officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, spoke during the Association for Accessible Medicines' Access! annual meeting, which gathered in Orlando, Florida, February 15-16.

A panel of experts details the current concerns regarding interchangeability designations for biosimilars in the United States and calls for regulators and policy makers to make changes to allow to easier access to biosimilars and greater adoption.

A trio of regulatory experts discuss the current standing of biosimilar policy in the United States and expectations going forward.

Investigators said pathologic complete response (pCR) improved in a trastuzumab biosimilar/pertuzumab trial when patients were preselected for a subtype of breast cancer.

In a pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) trial in healthy participants, Samsung Bioepis' SB12 eculizumab biosimilar candidate demonstrated equivalence to Soliris, the reference product.

In metastatic breast cancer (mBC) resistant to multiple lines, Herzuma (a trastuzumab biosimilar) plus gedatolisib, an mTOR/PI3K signaling pathway inhibitor, demonstrated value.

After a switch to a biosimilar, patients and their oncologists may not always agree on how well the switch was described or whether the patient felt involved.

The trial included "drifted" (nonstandard) reference product, forcing a stratified analysis to yield relevant data.

A trastuzumab biosimilar candidate demonstrated equivalence to Herceptin in patients with early-stage human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–breast cancer.

Regulators are at work clarifying biosimilar guidance and on Capitol Hill, a battle is raging over reforms that could help or hurt biosimilar advancement.

Specialty tiers for biosimilars and reforms that address the proliferation of poor-quality patents would help lower costs and improve access, biosimilar industry veterans said.

Kathy Oubre, MS, a cochair of the biosimilars committee of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), explains findings from a broad study of biosimilar use in oncology practices.

Sarah Yim, MD, provided a point-by-point overview of the FDA's efforts to clarify the role of the interchangeable biosimilar designation, improve communication with manufacturers, and pay for biosimilar regulatory reviews.

A consultant who specializes in helping Chinese biosimilar companies market their products in the European Union discusses the challenges and opportunities.

Janet Woodcock, MD, acting commissioner of the FDA, said the agency is meeting with biosimilar developers for biosimilars for 46 reference products.

Payers have moved from toe-in-the-water biosimilar policies to aggressive management, contributing to much more robust savings in recent years, according to Leslie Fish, RPh, PharmD, vice president of pharmacy at IPD Analytics.

Two AmerisourceBergen/Xcenda policy experts discuss the coming wave of pharmacy benefit biosimilars, formulary decisions, pricing transparency, and the Biden Administration’s push for lower-cost biologics.

Competitors in the field of adalimumab and insulin products may soon include “authorized biologics” in addition to biosimilars and interchangeable biosimilars, a pharmacy expert explains at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Nexus 2021 meeting.

Patients with and without experience with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)–blocker biologics have incomplete knowledge of biosimilars for these agents, according to findings presented at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy 2021 Nexus meeting.

Pharmacists need to brush up on their knowledge of the interchangeable biosimilar designation, investigators said in a survey presentation at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Nexus 2021 meeting.

In this interview with The Center for Biosimilars®, Amgen biosimilars expert Jen Norton discusses regulatory and policy incentives, interchangeable biosimilars, and market share gains.

Positive findings for Coherus BioSciences' ranibizumab candidate (CHS-201) were presented at the Scientific Meeting of the Retina Society, and the company said equivalence end points were met for an on-body injector version of Udenyca (pegfilgrastim).

Studies of the infliximab biosimilar Remsima in patients with inflammatory bowel disease were presented at United European Gastroenterology Week 2021.

Investigators said TX05 met pathologic complete response criteria for equivalence to the originator product, Herceptin. The biosimilar candidate also fell within objective response rate, immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability margins for similarity.

BCD-021 demonstrated equivalence in a phase 3 study involving Russian and Indian patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

MIL60 bevacizumab biosimilar candidate demonstrates equivalence to the originator Avastin in a population of Chinese patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated in a frontline setting.