All Biosimilars articles
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JournalRegulatory complexities and challenges of biosimilars
This continuing professional development (CPD) supplement focuses on the regulatory complexities and challenges associated with biosimilar products and their development. Although biosimilar products have been registered and approved for use in the EU for more than a decade, there is increasing speculation and excitement on the potential for biosimilars with increasingly complex structures, eg, multi-subunit, extensively post-translationally modified, and lipid-containing products.
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JournalCMC considerations for US biosimilars development
The US Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCI Act) provides an abbreviated licensure pathway for biosimilar products. This pathway brought the hope of lower cost biologics, perhaps similar to what was accomplished by generics for small molecule drugs. Twelve years have now passed since the BPCI Act and experience continues to be gained with biosimilars development…
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JournalBrexit: The regulatory landscape one year on
A year since the UK departed from the EU, what has changed? The UK has started to depart from the EU in a number of different ways. This article will explore what has changed, how it came about and what to look out for as the relationship between the UK and EU, as well as the rest of the world, continues to evolve.