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The Top 5 Biosimilar Articles for the Week of January 18
Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of January 18, 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 January 18, 2021.
Number 5: Results were inconclusive in a study of hypertension and proteinuria in 75 patients treated with bevacizumab reference vs biosimilar products, investigators reported at the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium 2021.
Number 4: Switching patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from the CT-P13 infliximab biosimilar to the SB2 infliximab biosimilar appears to be safe and effective whether 1 or more switches between biosimilars and the originator product were involved, investigators concluded in a retrospective study.
Number 3: Investigators have demonstrated that initial uptake of the first bevacizumab biosimilar (Mvasi, Amgen) in the United States was strongest for patients receiving treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
Number 2: Sonia T. Oskouei, PharmD, BCMAS, DPLA, wrote an opinion piece on why ophthalmology biosimilars are a therapeutic area to watch in 2021.
Number 1: The Center for Biosimilars® reported on developments at the International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (IGBA), Celltrion, Innovent Biologics, and Kamada.
To read all of these articles and more, visit centerforbiosimilars.com.
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