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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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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.

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FDA approves first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product for treatment of diabetes

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration approved the first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product, indicated to improve glycemic control in adults and pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and in adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Biosimilars marketed in the U.S. for the treatment of diabetes.

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Pioneering access to complex generic products 

Drug Discovery World

Claire D’Abreau-Hayling, Chief Scientific Officer at Sandoz, examines how generic products can relieve industry pressure and improve access to essential medicines. Off-patent medicines today account for about 80% of global prescriptions at an estimated 20% of the total cost. Complex generics comprise a diverse range of products.

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Would I FIE to You? FDA’s First Interchangeable Exclusivity Determination Results in Expiration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The FIE determination released in fall 2023 involves the Reference Product AbbVie’s Humira (adalimumab) and two interchangeable biosimilars—first approved is Cyltezo (adalimumab-adbm), filed by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc, which was followed by Abrilada (adalimumab-afzb), filed by Pfizer.

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Sandoz confirms late-stage clinical development plans for proposed biosimilar aflibercept, a key ophthalmology medicine

The Pharma Data

Sandoz, a Novartis division, today announced progress in the late-stage clinical development program for its proposed biosimilar aflibercept. The initiation of this study marks an important milestone in the development of our biosimilar aflibercept. Eylea ® is a trademark of Bayer AG and in the US of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.