Today, AbbVie and Samsung Bioepis announced that they have reached a global resolution of all intellectual property-related litigation relating to Samsung Bioepis’ biosimilar of Humira® (adalimumab), SB5, clearing the way for its commercialization in all approved markets worldwide. SB5 has already received marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) as…
A research letter published by the British Journal of Dermatology from investigators in Samsung Bioepis’s biosimilar etanercept (SB4) clinical trials reports that, in addition to therapeutic equivalence between SB4 and reference etanercept (Enbrel), SB4 has been found to be less immunogenic than reference etanercept. The letter notes that injection site…
We previously posted that in August 2017, Samsung Bioepis’ adalimumab biosimilar, SB5 (also known as Imraldi®), was granted marketing authorization by the European Commission. In September, it also won approval from the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. SB5 is a biosimilar for Humira®, which is approved for…