Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of July 19, 2021.
Hi, I’m Skylar Jeremias for The Center for Biosimilars®, your resource for clinical, regulatory, business, and policy news in the rapidly changing world of biosimilars.
Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of July 19, 2021.
Number 5: Panelists at the American Conference Institute's 2021 meeting took on the complexities of biosimilar adoption in a wide-ranging discussion.
Number 4: An advertisement for the Onpro wearable pegfilgrastim injector kit has the potential to undermine sales of biosimilars, the FDA stated in a warning letter.
Number 3: China approved a product for rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease that Mabpharm and Sorrento Therapteutics said is an improvement on infliximab.
Number 2: Amgen's advertising appeared to push doctors and patients away from the prefilled syringe version of its pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) product, which may have a better sales future than the Onpro.
Number 1: Just days after Bio-Thera announced initiation of a phase 3 study of patients receiving a candidate ustekinumab biosimilar, Samsung Bioepis said that it, too, began a phase 3 clinical trial for its own biosimilar version of the agent.
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