Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of July 25, 2022.
Hi, I’m Hayden Klein 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 25, 2022.
Number 5: The first 2 years of a Providence St. Joseph Health program to increase biosimilar uptake and cut costs created $26.9 million in cost savings and “biosimilar adoption rates that greatly exceed the US national average.”
Number 4: Alvotech announced early Wednesday it will launch a pharmacokinetic (PK) study of AVT03, a proposed biosimilar for 2 different formulations of denosumab, which is used to treat serious bone conditions.
Number 3: Prestige Biopharma and Intas Pharmaceuticals joined forces to partner on a bevacizumab biosimilar for multiple countries, and Hikma Pharmaceuticals made a deal with Celltrion Healthcare for the commercialization of an adalimumab biosimilar.
Number 2: Sandoz’ applications for its Tysabri biosimilar (natalizumab) and its high-concentration version of its Humira biosimilar (adalimumab) were accepted for review by the FDA and the European Medicines Agency.
Number 1: In recent weeks, Celltrion Healthcare furthered its adalimumab biosimilar (Yuflyma) by launching the drug in Spain and Portugal and starting a clinical trial in France while Xbrane Biopharma provided an update on the FDA filing of its ranibizumab biosimilar.
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