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On 5 May 2025, Alvotech and Teva announced that the US FDA has approved Selarsdi® (ustekinumab-aekn) as interchangeable with J&J’s Stelara® (ustekinumab) in all presentations, including for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, Crohn’s disease and ulce...

On 1 May 2025, Business Korea reported that, on 28 April 2025, Samsung Bioepis defeated Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Janssen Biotech’s application for a preliminary injunction preventing US sales of the private label version of Samsung Bioepis’ ustekinumab biosimilar...

On 30 April 2025, Roche announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending an update to the European Union (EU) label for Phesgo® to allow administration outside of a clinical setting,...

On 30 April 2025, when announcing its Q1/2025 financial results, Sandoz indicated that it will be “minimising” the Phase 3 trial of its biosimilar to MSD’s Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) in patients with untreated metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.  The decision...

On 30 April 2025, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved a subcutaneous (SC) formulation of BMS’ Opdivo® (nivolumab).  The SC formulation of nivolumab can be given as a 3–5 minute injection instead of the 30 or 60 minute intravenous (IV...

On 29 April 2025, Sandoz and Shanghai Henlius Biotech announced that they have entered into a global collaboration agreement to commercialise a biosimilar of BMS’ Yervoy® (ipilimumab).

Under the agreement, Henlius will develop and manufacture the biosimilar, HLX13, w...