The US FDA has approved a new biosimilar of Roche and Novartis' blockbuster ophthalmology therapy Lucentis – Coherus BioSciences' Cimerli – which its developer claims is the first to be fully ...
Lucentis' main patents are not due to expire in Europe until next year, but Samsung Bioepis and Biogen are now poised to roll out the drug as soon the intellectual property on the drug lapses.
The products—ReoPro, Lucentis and Cimzia—are used as treatments for cardiovascular, ophthalmic and immunological indications, respectively (Table 1). All three approved products are Fab molecules.
For example, in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) would only reimburse the use of Lucentis [ranibizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody fragment that binds ...