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Sandoz and Samsung Bioepis announced they have entered an exclusive agreement to develop and commercialise SB17 (ustekinumab, biosimilar to Janssen’s Stelara®) in the US, Canada, EEA, Switzerland and the UK.  Others details of the deal are confidential.

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Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the FDA approved their sBLA for their 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine for patients over 12 years of age, and granted emergency use authorisation for patients from 6 months to 11 years old.  The vaccine is an omicron XBB.1.5-adapted monovalent v...

Coherus Biosciences announced that it completed its acquisition of Surface Oncology, Inc., a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company.  Coherus’ pipeline now has a number of new clinical-stage assets, including:

Toripalimab: an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody under BLA...

The Financial Express reported that Enzene Biosciences, subsidiary of Alkem Labs, plans to imminently launch its ranibizumab biosimilar in India. This will be Enzene’s seventh Indian biosimilar.  Enzene’s CEO confirmed that the company plans to launch two biosimilars every ...

Biocon Biologics announced that it has completed the integration of Viatris in North America ahead of schedule, effective 1 September 2023.  The target date for the integration of Viatris was end Q3 2023.

On 5 July 2023, Biocon Biologics announced it had completed a ...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved Celltrion’s Vegzelma®, biosimilar to Genentech’s Avastin® (bevacizumab) for a range of indications, including metastatic colorectal cancer, locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, advanced, metastatic or recurrent n...

The Korea Economic Daily reported that Celltrion, Inc. announced plans to enlarge its finished pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility at its Songdo campus in Incheon, and has allocated about ₩126B (US$95M) for the project.  The expansion is scheduled to be completed by earl...

AstraZeneca announced that the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved its Calquence® (acalabrutinib) to treat a new indication: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who have received at least one prior therapy...