Here are the top 5 biosimilar articles for the week of July 27, 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 biosimilars articles for the week of July 27, 2020.
Number 5: As Samsung Biologics’ bioreactor facilities are expected to reach full utilization by 2022, the company said it will construct a fourth plant and a bio campus, according to industry reports.
Number 4: The Center for Biosimilars® spoke with Adrian van den Hoven, director general of Medicines for Europe, and Diogo Piedade, market access manager for Medicines for Europe, about their scorecard report for biosimilar access in European markets.
Number 3: While many countries are in lockdown due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pharmaceutical chains like Samsung Bioepis have ensured supply continuity and flexibility to swiftly respond to market changes by regionalizing supply chain activities to provide near-market manufacturing.
Number 2: Biosimilar misinformation takes many forms, some of it institutionalized in the form of word usage and some of it deliberately disparaging, 2 executives of Sandoz and Boehringer Ingelheim contend.
Number 1: President Trump signed 4 executive orders that would lower prices of prescriptions medications including insulin products and cancer medicines.
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Study: More Biosimilar Competition Is Not Lowering Patient OOP Costs
March 29th 2024Despite more biosimilars entering the market and generating significant savings for payers and health care systems, these savings are not resulting in lower out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for patients, according to a recent study.
Decoding the Patent Puzzle: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Biosimilars
March 17th 2024On this episode of Not So Different, Ha Kung Wong, JD, an intellectual patent attorney and partner at Venable LLP, details the confusing landscape that is the US patent system and how it can be improved to help companies overcome barriers to biosimilar competition.
Switch to Biosimilar BAT1806/BIIB800 Maintains Efficacy, Safety in RA Patients
March 26th 2024Switching to the biosimilar version of tocilizumab (BAT1806/BIIB800) showed similar effectiveness, safety, and tolerability compared with the original drug for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who had an inadequate response to methotrexate.
Biosimilars Rheumatology Roundup for February 2024—Podcast Edition
March 3rd 2024On this episode of Not So Different, The Center for Biosimilars® revisited all the major rheumatology biosimilar news from February 2024, including the FDA approval of the 10th adalimumab biosimilar, the promise for an oral delivery system for ustekinumab, and the impact of adalimumab products on COVID-19 antibodies.
Physician and Patient Perspectives After Starting or Switching to Amgevita in IBD
March 23rd 2024A real-world study surveying physicians and patients on adalimumab biosimilar ABP 501 (Amgevita) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) found both patients initiating ABP 501 and those who had switched from the reference product had higher satisfaction levels.