Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of October 3, 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 3, 2022.
Number 5: Sarfaraz K. Niazi, PhD, explains the significance of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) declaring that biosimilars are interchangeable with their reference products and calls for the United States to do the same in the first installment of his new monthly column.
Number 4: The final part of a 4-part series assesses what payers should know about the US introduction of adalimumab biosimilars coming in 2023 as well as policy considerations they can implement to reap the benefits of biosimilar savings.
Number 3: Health Canada approved Lupin Limited’s Rymti, the third etanercept biosimilar to be granted regulatory approval in the country. Meanwhile, Prestige Biopharma announced that it withdrew its European application for its trastuzumab biosimilar.
Number 2: The FDA approved Celltrion Healthcare’s Vegzelma (bevacizumab-adcd; CT-P16), a biosimilar referencing Genentech’s Avastin. The approval marks the fourth bevacizumab biosmilar to be approved in the United States.
Number 1: One of the first provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act—a 5-year temporary increase in the add-on payment for qualifying biosimilars to encourage their utilization—took affect October 3.
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Study Documents HCPs’ Experiences of a Mandatory Switch to Inform Future Transitions
December 2nd 2023A survey explores the experiences of health care providers (HCP) throughout the transition process following a mandatory switch from the adalimumab originator (Humira) to a biosimilar in New Zealand in 2022.
IQVIA Highlights Opportunity to Cash In on Biosimilars for Biologics Losing Market Exclusivity
November 29th 2023A report from IQVIA noted that Europe could miss out on €15 billion in cost savings by not having biosimilars for medications about to lose market exclusivity, shedding light on the implications for overall health care savings and ultimately, patient access.
CVS Caremark Switches Up Biosimilar Coverage in 2024
November 27th 2023As new biosimilars are added to CVS Caremark’s standard formulary, others are removed. One notable change is with the Humira biosimilars: the pharmacy benefit manager has removed Amjevita in favor of Hyrimoz and an unbranded biosimilar.
Phase 1 Study Finds Comparable PK, PD Parameters in Biosimilar GP40141 vs Reference Romiplostim
November 25th 2023A phase 1 analysis confirms that romiplostim biosimilar candidate GP40141 has comparable pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) parameters in healthy volunteers compared with the reference product.