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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Postapproval Manufacturing Changes to Biosimilar Products

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​​​​​​​On July 23, 2024, the FDA issued a draft guidance entitled “Postapproval Manufacturing Changes to Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products Questions and Answers.”...more

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FDA Accepts Bio-Thera’s aBLA for Proposed Stelara® (Ustekinumab) Interchangeable BAT2206

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On July 24, 2024, Bio-Thera Solutions announced the FDA acceptance of its aBLA for BAT2206 (ustekinumab), a proposed biosimilar of Janssen and Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara® (ustekinumab), with a request for interchangeability....more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Demonstrating Biosimilar Interchangeability

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​​​​​​​Last month, the FDA issued draft guidance, which, if implemented, would remove a requirement for a switching study for demonstrating biosimilar interchangeability....more

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Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - June 2024

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FDA Revises Guidance on Switching Studies for Biosimilar Interchangeability

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On June 20, 2024, the FDA issued a draft guidance, “Considerations for Demonstrating Interchangeability with a Reference Product: Update” that revises the need for switching studies to demonstrate a biosimilar is...more

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Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - May 2024

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Updates on Aflibercept Biosimilar Approvals and BPCIA Litigation

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Regeneron’s regulatory exclusivity for EYLEA expired on May 18, 2024. Two days later, on May 20, 2024, the FDA announced that it has approved Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Biocon Biologics, Inc.’s YESAFILI...more

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FDA Updates Draft Guidance on Promotional Communications of Prescription Biologics and Biosimilars

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On April 25, 2024, the FDA published a notice of availability in the Federal Register for its revised draft guidance, entitled “Promotional Labeling and Advertising Considerations for Prescription Biological Reference...more

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[Event] 15th Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics - June 20th - 21st, New York, NY

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics returns to New York City, on June 20 - 21, 2024. Now in its 15th year, the 2024 conference will dive deep into the latest legal,...more

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Biden Administration Proposes Biosimilar Substitution Without Interchangeability

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​​​​​​​The Biden Administration recently released a 2025 Budget Proposal which includes permitting biosimilar substitution without the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) separate determination of interchangeability. ...more

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Teva and Alvotech’s Adalimumab Biosimilar Receives Interchangeable Status at FDA

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On February 23rd, 2024, Alvotech and Teva announced FDA’s approval of SIMLANDI (adalimumab-ryvk), the first high-concentration and citrate-free biosimilar interchangeable with Humira. SIMLANDI injection was approved for nine...more

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First High-Concentration Humira® Interchangeable, Alvotech and Teva’s Simlandi®, Approved in the U.S.

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On February 23, 2024, the FDA approved Alvotech and Teva’s Simlandi® (adalimumab-ryvk) as biosimilar to and interchangeable with AbbVie’s Humira® (adalimumab). Simlandi® is the tenth Humira® biosimilar to be approved, and the...more

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BYOOVIZ® (Ranibizumab-Nuna) Granted Interchangeable Status

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Recently, Biogen and Samsung Bioepis’s ranibizumab biosimilar (BYOOVIZ) was granted interchangeable status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. BYOOVIZ was deemed interchangeable to Genentech’s LUCENTIS for the treatment...more

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New FDA Guidance Removes Interchangeability Statement from Product Labels

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On September 18, 2023, the FDA issued a new draft guidance “Labeling for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products,” updating the previous labeling guidance “Labeling for Biosimilar Products” from July 2018. ...more

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Regulatory Update on Alvotech’s AVT02, a High-Concentration Interchangeable Adalimumab Biosimilar

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On September 20, Alvotech announced that FDA has accepted the resubmission of its Biologics License Application (BLA) for AVT02, a high concentration, interchangeable biosimilar to HUMIRA (adalimumab). FDA has set a...more

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FDA Releases Draft Labeling Guidance for Biosimilar Products

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Last week, FDA released a draft guidance, “Labeling for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products” (“2023 Draft Guidance”) that—when finalized—will revise and replace its July 2018 final guidance, “Labeling for...more

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Is it Biosimilar or Interchangeable? It Won’t Be Easy to Tell Under FDA’s Latest Draft Labeling Guidance

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Last week, FDA released a draft guidance, “Labeling for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products” that—when finalized—will revise and replace its July 2018 final guidance, “Labeling for Biosimilar Products.” FDA...more

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FDA Omnibus Reform Act: Examining the Policy Changes

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The Act introduces key reforms to the FDA regulatory framework relating to drugs, biological products, and cosmetics, among others. On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023...more

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Year in Review: Top Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2022

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As 2022 comes to a close, we review Big Molecule Watch’s top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year...more

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Senator Mike Lee Introduces the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act to Eliminate Switching Study Requirement for Biosimilar...

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On November 17, 2022, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act” to increase biosimilar competition and reduce patient costs by prohibiting the FDA from requiring switching studies to approve...more

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Biosimilars Approved in the EU are Considered Interchangeable

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​​​​​​​On September 19, 2022, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines’ Agencies (HMA) issued a joint statement explaining their scientific rationale for determining that biosimilars approved in the EU...more

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FDA Approves First Interchangeable Biosimilar Insulin Product - Update

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July 28, 2021 - the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Viatris Inc.’s (formerly Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.) SEMGLEE (insulin glargine-yfgn), a biosimilar to LANTUS (insulin glargine). According to the press...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Including Provisions To Promote Generic Drug and Biosimilar Competition in the American...

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On July 9, President Biden issued an Executive Order regarding competition in various sectors of the United States economy, including the healthcare market. Among the 72 initiatives set forth in the Order are instructions...more

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Biosimilars in 2020: What’s Ahead

The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) was passed as part of health reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This year, the BPCIA turns 10. While the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway has...more

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