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Teva’s rituximab biosimilar captures a fifth of the US market • Source: Shutterstock

Teva has talked up its biosimilars business as a future growth driver for the company, following a successful US launch of Truxima (rituximab-abbs) – in partnership with Celltrion – that has seen the Rituxan rival capture a fifth of the market in a year, in part due to its exclusive rheumatoid arthritis indication.

The Israeli firm gained the indication for Truxima – which it launched last November (Also see "Teva Debuts US...

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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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