Huge industry investment in rheumatology, Eli Lilly's Greg van Wyk tells TPL

10 June 2016
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There has been a lot of excitement about the potential of biosimilars at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR) in London this week.

Led by the likes of USA-based Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN), Samsung Bioepis and the biotech which owns part of the South Korean company, Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB), a number of firms are close to, or already, bringing patients cheaper versions of existing drugs.

But that does not mean that new and improved therapies are not emerging, as new data presented at EULAR has shown.

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