China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) on Feb. 22 announced the approval of Shanghai Henlius Biotech Co. Ltd’s HLX-01, a biosimilar to Roche’s MabThera (rituximab), for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, making it the first biosimilar to be approved under the country’s regulatory pathway for such follow-on biologics.
The product was granted a priority review by the NMPA and is also designated as a National Major Technical Breakthrough...






