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Hospira is looking to add another biosimilar candidate to its growing pipeline by partnering with Pfenex to develop and market a biosimilar of Genentech’s retinal disease therapy Lucentis. Read More
Trials of drugs targeting complicated intra-abdominal infections should use only drugs that are standard of care as active comparators, the FDA says, and studies should minimize the use of outside antibiotics in trial subjects as much as possible to produce clear, definitive trial results. Read More
An FDA advisory committee will meet next month to consider Celltrion’s biosimilar version of Janssen’s Remicade, putting the agency on track to meet a goal of reviewing five biosimilar applications a year. Read More
Despite gain in recent years, venture funding for pharmaceutical innovation still lags behind prerecession levels, according to a new BIO report that also tracked a move away from developing novel therapies in favor of improving on existing ones. Read More
A proposal to lift restrictions on how drugmakers can promote products on social media and another that would grant up to 15 years of generics-free exclusivity to drugs approved to treat an unmet medical need are emerging as controversial issues in a proposal to overhaul FDA drug approval processes. Read More
The Indian government is planning to relaunch a program that would sell hundreds of quality generic drugs at low cost under its own label, Jan Aushadhi. Read More
The FDA is giving industry until March 9 to weigh in again on the controversy surrounding generic first-filer exclusivity determinations and other GDUFA-related issues first raised at a September public hearing. Read More
Long-awaited guidance on designating a biosimilar as interchangeable with the reference product may soon be in the offing, based on an FDA request for comments on a proposed collection of information. Read More