Yet another biosimilar Herceptin set to come to European markets

28 June 2018

As Swiss pharma giant Roche (ROG: SIX) starts facing up to biosimilars competition for some of its mega-selling biological drugs, yet another copy version has emerged.

Singapore-based Prestige BioPharma and privately-held US generics drugmaker Alvogen have entered into a binding agreement for the exclusive partnership and supply for the commercialization of Prestige BioPharma´s trastuzumab biosimilar (HD201; Hervelous) in Central and Eastern Europe.

Hervelous is a monoclonal antibody (MAb) biosimilar to Roche’s Herceptin (trastuzumab), which is used to treat patients with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, HER2-overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, and generated sales last year of $7.4 billion. Hervelous is in Phase III clinical development for filing with the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration in 2019.

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