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The Competitive Edge of Biosimilars

DrugBank

Biosimilars  Biosimilars, while highly similar to their reference biopharmaceuticals, offer distinct advantages that position them as preferred therapeutic options in many cases. This is because biosimilars are not new drugs but highly similar versions of already approved therapies with established safety and efficacy profiles.

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Four Crucial Questions about the Humira Biosimilar Price War (rerun)

Drug Channels

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I put the finishing touches on our new 2023-24 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Boehringer-Ingelheim launched an unbranded, low WAC version of its interchangeable biosimilar. The Humira biosimilar market has arrived!

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How the Biosimilar Boom Boosts Drug Wholesalers’ Profits

Drug Channels

The biosimilar boom for provider-administered drugs continues to accelerate. Net prices in therapeutic classes with biosimilar competition have declined by 60% or more over the past few years. Some major biological reference products have now lost a majority of their unit sales to their biosimilars. drug distribution.

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Why PBMs and Payers Are Embracing Insulin Biosimilars with Higher Prices—And What That Means for Humira (rerun with an FTC update)

Drug Channels

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while we put the finishing touches on DCI’s new 2024-25 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Specialty Distributors. Below, you can review my commentary about the warped incentives behind Viatris’ dual-pricing strategy for its interchangeable biosimilar of Lantus.

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The Biosimilar Landscape: An Overview of Regulatory Approvals by the EMA and FDA

Drug Patent Watch

This article was originally published by Ioana Gherghescu and Begoña Delgado-Charro in Pharmaceutics 2021, 13(1) under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Abstract Biosimilar medicines expand the biotherapeutic market and improve….

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Sandoz Application for proposed biosimilar adalimumab’s high concentration formulation accepted by EMA

The Pharma Data

Submission supported by comprehensive analytical and clinical data from new Phase I bridging pharmacokinetics study Adalimumab’s high-concentration 100 mg/mL formulation aims to provide an enhanced yet familiar experience for patients Submission builds on Sandoz’ well established biosimilar immunology portfolio in Europe.

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The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled was Convincing the World He Didn’t Exist: Senate Judiciary Set to Mark-Up Patent Reform Bills that Could Significantly Affect Hatch-Waxman and the BPCIA

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

IPRs have become an important tool used by generic drug and biosimilar manufacturers to try and clear patent thickets covering brand-name products prior to or during the pendency of an ANDA or aBLA submission. Eliminating invalid patents under § 101 enables generic and biosimilar companies to streamline pharmaceutical litigation.