Approval of Fresenius Kabi’s Tocilizumab Biosimilar in the EU: On September 19, 2023, Fresenius Kabi announced that the European Commission (EC) granted marketing authorization for TYENNE (tocilizumab), a biosimilar referencing Roche’s ROACTEMRA. TYENNE is the first tocilizumab biosimilar approved in the EU. TYENNE received approval for both subcutaneous (prefilled syringe…
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and GlaxoSmithKline LLC (collectively, “GSK”) recently filed suit in the District of Delaware against Pfizer, Inc. alleging that Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (“RSV”) vaccine ABRYSVO infringes four U.S. patents covering GSK’s rival RSV vaccine, AVREXY. According to the complaint, AVREXY and ABRYSVO were approved by the U.S….
Last week, Fresenius Kabi announced the launch of STIMUFEND (pegfilgrastim-fpgk), a biosimilar to Amgen’s NEULASTA, in the United States. As we previously reported, STIMUFEND was Fresenius Kabi’s first biosimilar approved by the FDA on September 6, 2022 and is now Fresenius Kabi’s first biosimilar to launch in the United States. …
Earlier today, Fresenius Kabi announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IDACIO (adalimumab-aacf), a biosimilar referencing HUMIRA. IDACIO is approved for use in the treatment of chronic autoimmune diseases for all eligible indications of the reference product and, according to Fresenius, is expected to launch in the…
Biogen Inc. (“Biogen”) recently announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the marketing authorization application for BIIB800 (BAT1806), a biosimilar candidate referencing Roche’s ACTEMRA (tocilizumab). ACTEMRA, an anti-interleukin-6 receptor monoclonal antibody, is approved in Europe as an intravenous formulation for severe, active and progressive rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic polyarthritis, active…
Earlier this week, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Teva) announced that the UK Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved ONGAVIA, a ranibizumab biosimilar referencing Genentech’s LUCENTIS. Ranibizumab inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is responsible for the excessive formation of blood vessels in the retina. The United Kingdom is…
On March 30, 2022, Fresenius Kabi announced that the European Commission approved STIMUFEND, a pegfilgrastim biosimilar referencing NEULASTA, for patients with non-myeloid cancer who are receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy. STIMUFEND, to launch in a prefilled syringe, is Fresenius’s first approved molecule in its oncology biosimilar portfolio and second biosimilar approved in…
Last week, Biogen Inc. announced it had reached an agreement to sell its equity stake in the Samsung Bioepis joint venture to partner Samsung Biologics for an aggregate consideration of up to $2.3 billion. According to a press release from Samsung Biologics, Biogen initially invested a 15% stake when the…
As we ring in the new year, we look back at the top U.S. biosimilar market developments of 2021. Here are our top five: 1. SEMGLEE Launches As First-Ever Interchangeable Biosimilar In July, the FDA approved Viatris Inc.’s (formerly Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.) SEMGLEE (insulin-glargine-yfgn), a biosimilar to LANTUS (insulin glargine)….