Monday, April 29, 2019 Daily Archives

Success for Bioepis as FDA approves a second Enbrel biosimilar

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a second biosimilar of Amgen’s Enbrel (etanercept), Samsung Bioepis’s Eticovo. Korea’s Samsung Bioepis has seen regulatory approval for its etanercept biosimilar in numerous markets, including Korea, Europe, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and Israel. Now the firm has had the molecule approved in the US under the brand name Eticovo. This is the second biosimilar of Amgen’s autoimmune disease drug Enbrel to be approved by the FDA. In August 2016, Sandoz received…