Just days after it began selling the second biosimilar pegfilgrastim product in the US, and the company’s first, Coherus BioSciences’ management took to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to explain how the company is set apart from rival Mylan. Through debt financing, the California-based player has also just grabbed a further US$75 million to fuel the biosimilar’s launch.
Coherus BioSciences focused on what had gone “sideways” with previous biosimilar launches in the US in deciding to price its Udenyca (pegfilgrastim- cbqv) biosimilar at a wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) lower than Neulasta’s (pegfilgrastim) average selling price (ASP) in the market, management says.
The US-based player is also taking a “very different approach…than Mylan,” with its Fulphila (pegfilgrastim-jmdb) biosimilar that launched last July,...
The UK government has said it will invest almost £30m ($40.4m) in AI technologies to modernize the NHS and reduce wait times – but for the medtech sector, the devil will be in the details.
The UK government has said it will invest almost £30m ($40.4m) in AI technologies to modernize the NHS and reduce wait times – but for the medtech sector, the devil will be in the details.
An abbreviated licensure pathway for biologics was created by the 2009 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. Biologics demonstrated to be biosimilar to or interchangeable with FDA-approved products can use the 351(k) biologics license application pathway. Biosimilars BLAs submitted under the 351(k) pathway have a 12 month user fee goal for FDA action. Updated weekly.
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Teva and Biocon Biologics have become the latest firms to sign up to the Biosimilars Forum industry association in the US.
