Alvotech And Fuji Stretch Alliance To Ustekinumab In Japan

Alvotech and Fuji Pharma have extended their alliance to cover exclusive development and supply of biosimilar ustekinumab in Japan. 

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Alvotech has extended its biosimilars alliance with Fuji Pharma to cover ustekinumab in Japan • Source: Shutterstock

Alvotech and Fuji Pharma have entered into a binding agreement for the Japanese company to have exclusive local commercialization rights to the biosimilar of Janssen’s Stelara (ustekinumab) human interleukin-12 and -23 antagonist that Alvotech is developing.

Under the terms of the agreement, Alvotech will assume responsibility for development and commercial supply from its manufacturing facility in Reykjavik, Iceland

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