Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of November 9, 2020.
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 November 9, 2020.
Number 5: Investigators at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence 2020 meeting presented evidence of what they say are successful, first-time tests of a multibiomarker disease activity (MBDA) score in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Number 4: Medicines for Europe, a generic and biosimilar trade association, contends in a white paper that legal and regulatory loopholes increasingly keep competing drugs off the market
Number 3: Separate studies including one on application methods for Celltrion’s adalimumab biosimilar (CT-P17) were reported at the ACR Convergence 2020 meeting.
Number 2: Alberta, Canada’s deadline for switching patients to biosimilars is months away, but the province has already seen some success with the new program.
Number 1: Biosimilar developments reported at the ACR Convergence 2020 virtual meeting included data from safety and efficacy trials for Pfizer and Celltrion versions of adalimumab.
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