Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of June 26, 2023.
Hi, I’m Justina Petrullo 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 June 26th, 2023.
Number 5: Enhancing pharmacists’ knowledge of biosimilars can assist in promoting their use and defeat misconceptions and misinformation related to generic drugs and biosimilars.
Number 4: Researchers of a retrospective cohort study find that a rituximab biosimilar, BCD-020, was safe and effective in pediatric patients with lupus nephritis.
Number 3: The ranibizumab biosimilar XSB-001 (Ximluci) demonstrates biosimilarity to the originator (Lucentis) in a phase 3 trial in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
Number 2: An analysis of 25 studies finds adalimumab, infliximab, and etanercept biosimilars just as safe, effective, and tolerable in comparison with their originators in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Number 1: In his latest column, Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD, takes a look at common misconceptions about biosimilar development and expresses how companies can seize new opportunities to save the US biosimilar market and generate profit.
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