Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of October 17, 2022.
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 October 17, 2022.
Number 5: St John Skilton, PhD, vice president of product strategy and marketing at Protein Metrics, takes a deep dive into how the development of biosimilars is evolving and how tools, such as mass spectrometry, can help companies keep up with advancing technology.
Number 4: Bio-Thera Solutions began a phase 1 trial for its mepolizumab biosimilar candidate; Biocon Biologics licenses out 2 biosimilars to Yoshindo; and Alvotech and STADA Arzneimittel launch Hukyndra, an adalimumab biosimilar, in Switzerland.
Number 3: Biosimilars Canada, a national association representing the Canadian biosimilar industry, held a press conference calling on Ontario, the province containing the nation’s capital, to institute a biosimilars switching policy.
Number 2: Amgen’s ninth edition of its Biosimilar Trends Report explores the evolution of the US biosimilar industry, including current trends, predictions for the next few years, advice for stakeholders going forward, and insight into how reimbursement and other policies could develop.
Number 1: A study from the Republic of Korea confirmed the safety and efficacy of Herzuma (CT-P16) in patients with heavily pretreated human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer.
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