1. Pfizer Launched its Zirabev (biosimilar, bevacizumab) in the US by the year end 2019Date - Oct 01, 2019Product - Zirabev (biosimilar, bevacizumab)The biosimilar was launched in the US on Dec 31, 2019 following the settlement between Genentech and Pfizer granting all global rights of the product to the Pfizer. In Sept 2019,…
The US FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) have approved 35 new products so far in 2019. In 2018 FDA approved 59 novel products including 42 New Chemical Entities and 17 Biologics while breaking its last year's record of approvals. However, there is a significant…
Biosimilars are key alternatives for costly Biologics therapies and saving millions of dollars of patients in multiple diseases. Hence physicians are likely to adopt biosimilars 'a reference product to biologics'possessing similar therapeutic properties in terms of potency, safety, and efficacy to original biologic products. Our team at PharmaShots has summarized key events of the biosimilar…

