With Prolia Rival In The Bag, China’s Luye Takes Aim At Xgeva Biosimilar

With Prolia Rival In The Bag, China’s Luye Takes Aim At Xgeva Biosimilar

Boan Biotech is continuing its ascent in Chinese biosimilars by filing another product with the country’s regulator.

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China’s regulator has accepted for review local firm Boan Biotech’s biologics license application for its proposed biosimilar to Amgen’s Xgeva (denosumab) – months after the Luye Pharma Group, Ltd. subsidiary claimed the first biosimilar approved for marketing in the world for another version of the monoclonal antibody, Prolia.

BA1102, Boan’s Xgeva biosimilar candidate, has been accepted by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation, based...

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