Tagged as: Humira

Teva and Alvotech Expand Strategic Biosimilars Partnership

Alvotech and Teva announced an expansion of their existing strategic partnership agreement relating to biosimilars products in the U.S.  According to the announcement, the existing agreement includes AVT02, an interchangeable high-concentration biosimilar candidate for HUMIRA (adalimumab), and four other biosimilar candidates, including AVT04, a proposed biosimilar of STELARA (ustekinumab).  The…

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HUMIRA (adalimumab) Biosimilar Launches

In the last week, seven adalimumab biosimilars referencing HUMIRA entered the U.S. market:  Boehringer Ingelheim’s CYLTEZO (adalimumab-adbm); Sandoz’s HYRIMOZ (adalimumab-adaz); Organon and Samsung Bioepis’s HADLIMA (adalimumab-bwwd); Coherus Biosciences’s YUSIMRY (adalimumab-aqvh); Celltrion’s YUFLYMA (adalimumab-aaty); Fresenius Kabi’s IDACIO (adalimumab-aacf); and Biocon’s HULIO (adalimumab-fkjb).  With Amgen’s AMJEVITA (adalimumab-atto), launched in January 2023, there…

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CYLTEZO® to Launch on July 1 as the First Interchangeable HUMIRA® Biosimilar

Beginning tomorrow, July 1, 2023, CYLTEZO® (adalimumab-adbm) will become the first HUMIRA® (adalimumab) biosimilar with interchangeable status to be commercially available in the United States.  Boehringer Ingelheim has also announced that with CYLTEZO’s commercial launch, pharmacy-benefit manager Optum Rx (a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group), which currently covers more than 66…

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Coherus and AbbVie File Dueling Motions for Injunctive Relief Relating to Coherus’s HUMIRA Biosimilar

Our readers may recall that ten HUMIRA biosimilars have been licensed to launch, with Amgen’s AMJEVITA the only one to launch to date and nine others set to launch starting in July 2023.  On June 1, 2023, Coherus issued a press release announcing “that the company plans to launch YUSIMRY™…

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Natasha Daughtrey to Speak at ACI’s 14th Annual Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics

The 14th Annual American Conference Institute’s (ACI) Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics will be held on June 27-28, bringing together the “who’s who” of the biosimilars and innovator biologics industries as they gather to discuss and contemplate the impact of critical developments in these industries: biologics becoming the fastest-growing…

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FDA Approves Celltrion’s YUFLYMA (adalimumab-aaty), a Biosimilar to HUMIRA

Today Celltrion announced that the FDA approved its biosimilar product, YUFLYMA (adalimumab-aaty), a high-concentration (100mg/mL) and citrate-free formulation of HUMIRA.  YUFLYMA is approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, plaque psoriasis, and hidradenitis suppurativa.  As we previously reported, Celltrion…

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Sandoz Announces Approval for Biosimilar Hyrimoz® (adalimumab-adaz)

On March 21, 2023, Sandoz, announced FDA approval of its citrate-free high-concentration formulation (HCF) of its biosimilar HYRIMOZ® (adalimumab-adaz) injection.  HYRIMOZ® is approved to treat seven indications covered by the reference medicine, HUMIRA® (adalimumab), including rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and plaque…

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European Biosimilar Regulatory Updates

STADA and Xbrane Announce Approval of Ranibizumab Biosimilar in UK On January 16, 2023, STADA Arzneimittel AG (STADA) and Xbrane Biopharyma AB (Xbrane) announced that the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted marketing authorization for XIMLUCI (ranibizumab), a biosimilar of LUCENTIS.  XIMLUCI is an anti-VEGF (vascular…

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Amgen Launches AMJEVITA—First Biosimilar to HUMIRA in the United States

Amgen announced today the launch of AMJEVITA (adalimumab-atto), a biosimilar to AbbVie’s HUMIRA (adalimumab), in the United States.  AMJEVITA was the first HUMIRA biosimilar approved by the FDA and is now the first to be launched in the United States. AMJEVITA is approved to treat seven inflammatory diseases, including moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis in adults,…

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Alvotech and Bioventure Announce Approval of ADALIMUMAB Biosimilar in Saudi Arabia

On January 24, Alvotech and Bioventure, a subsidiary of GlobalOne Healthcare Holding LLC, announced that the Saudi Food & Drug Authority has approved SIMLANDI, a biosimilar referencing HUMIRA (adalimumab), in Saudi Arabia. According to the press release, Bioventure is Alvotech’s exclusive strategic partner for the commercialization of SIMLANDI in the…

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