EULAR 2019: AbbVie presses on with post-Humira plan with upadacitinib data

13 June 2019
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Convincing physicians that their drug is a better option than AbbVie’s (NYSE: ABBV) Humira has been an aim of a lot of companies at the EULAR congress again this year – with the Chicago-based drugmaker among them.

Humira is already facing biosimilar competition in Europe, so AbbVie is keen to show that it has an improvement coming up next.

The company has presented long-term data on its investigational JAK1-selective inhibitor, upadacitinib, from the Phase III SELECT-EARLY and SELECT-COMPARE trials in rheumatoid arthritis.

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