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On 26 March 2025, Bio-Thera Solutions and Dr Reddy’s announced that they have entered exclusive commercialisation and licence agreements for BAT2206 and BAT2506, biosimilars to J&J/Janssen’s Stelara® (ustekinumab) and Simponi® (golimumab), respectively.

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On 26 March 2025, Fresenius Kabi announced that the US FDA approved its Biologics Licence Application (BLA) for Conexxence® and Bomyntra® (denosumab-bhnt), biosimilars to Amgen’s Prolia® and Xgeva® respectively, for all reference indications.  Fresenius is the fourth sponso...

On 28 March 2025, Sanofi and Regeneron announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has granted marketing and manufacturing authorisation for Dupixent® (dupliumab) for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adults whose disease is ...

On 24 March 2025, GSK announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for review its application to expand the use of Nucala® (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an eosinophilic...

On 20 March 2025, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced that the US FDA has approved Tremfya® (guselkumab) for adult patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease.  According to J&J, Tremfya® is the first and only IL-23 inhibitor offering both subcutan...

On 20 March 2025, Alvotech announced its acquisition of Xbrane’s Swedish R&D operations, as well as biosimilar candidate XB003 referencing UCB’s Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol).  Xbrane will retain some pre-clinical development programs and will continue to operate as a li...

On 19 March 2025, the US FDA approved MSD’s Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) with trastuzumab, fluoropyrimidine- and platinum- containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adults with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-postiive gastric or gastroesoph...

On 19 March 2025, Korea Biomedical Review (KBR) reported that Daewoong Pharmaceutical has launched Celltrion’s Stoboclo® (CT-P41), biosimilar to Amgen’s Prolia® (denosumab) at a 28% discount.  Celltrion entered into a joint sales agreement with Daewoong in October 2024, und...