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Nichi-Iko Delays US Infliximab Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

As Japanese Company Trains Focus On Bevacizumab

 
• By Dean Rudge

Nichi-Iko maintains it is still on course to be one of the very few players to offer an ‘interchangeable’ biosimilar in the US, with its rival to Janssen’s Remicade. The Japanese company has revealed its latest schedule as it also reported full-year financial results. 

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Nichi-Iko's ambitions for the US infliximab market have been pushed back • Source: Shutterstock

Japan’s Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical is now aiming to file the company’s proposed NI-071 biosimilar to Janssen’s Remicade (infliximab) with the US Food and Drug Administration in calendar 2021, as it conceded production scale-up for the biosimilar has been delayed by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. 

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