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EMA accepts MAAs for Sandoz’s denosumab biosimilars to Amgen’s Prolia® and Xgeva®

May 25, 2023

Sandoz announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted marketing authorisation applications (MAA) for its proposed biosimilar denosumab, for regulatory review. The two applications include the approved indications for the originator drugs Prolia® and Xgeva®, including osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and in men at increased risk of fractures, treatment-induced bone loss, prevention of skeletal related complications in cancer that have spread to the bone, and giant cell tumor of the bone.

This week Mitsubishi and GlycoNex announced Japanese approval of their phase I clinical trial of SPD8, a denosumab biosimilar to Prolia®