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FDA Accepts for Review Pfizer’s Supplemental Application for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) Interchangeability

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) as an interchangeable biosimilar to Humira® (adalimumab). The Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) goal date for an FDA decision is in Q4 2022. “An

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Amongst other things, FDA co-opted many of the same definitions for key terms for implementation of the BPCIA. Specifically, Boehringer asked FDA to interpret “strength” for biosimilars to mean “total drug content” to the exclusion of “concentration.” FDA thus disagrees that such differences are not clinically meaningful.

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Keeping Your Company’s Federal Contracting Options Safe in the Face of Pending BIOSECURE Act Legislation

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Effect on FDA approvals— In cases where a biological product or drug needs to change aspects of its manufacturing processes to avoid using a covered equipment or service, will it need to file supplements with FDA for the CMC update?

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Amgen Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

Product sales increased 3% globally, driven by double digit volume growth across a number of our products including Prolia ® (denosumab), Repatha ® (evolocumab) and our biosimilar products MVASI ® (bevacizumab-awwb) and KANJINTI ® (trastuzumab-anns). AMGEVITA continued to be the most prescribed adalimumab biosimilar in Europe.

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Lineage Cell Therapeutics Provides End of Year Shareholder Letter

The Pharma Data

As a reminder, there currently is no FDA approval pathway to develop a generic or biosimilar copy of a cell therapy product, which provides a significant barrier-to-entry from generic competition.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA fiscal year in review: New drug approvals in the wake of the pandemic and legislative reforms

Agency IQ

For example, these products face a much more arduous path for development of biosimilar or interchangeable products than that of generics for small molecules. As AgencyIQ has previously discussed , developing biosimilars is an expensive process. FDA approved 13 NMEs through the AA pathway in FY 2023, making up 25.5%

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FDA accepts Pfizer’s Supplemental New Drug Applications for BRAFTOVI + MEKTOVI

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Supplemental New Drug Applications (sNDAs) for BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) + MEKTOVI® (binimetinib) for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by an FDA-approved test. In the U.S.,

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