Biosimilars: forging a pathway to patients

20 June 2016

Biosimilars are one of the biggest talking points in the drug-making industry at present.

One only had to be at this month’s 2016 Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) to witness how many drugs being developed in that therapy areas are biosimilars, and the amount of data and resources which companies are throwing at them.

Some of the biologic drugs which they supposedly replicate are massive sellers, the likes of Humira (adalimumab), currently sold by US pharma major AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), and it is not just in rheumatology where several biosimilars are being developed.

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