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IGBA Launches Global Biosimilars Week 2021

Follows Inaugural Event In November Last Year

 
• By Dave Wallace

The IGBA has followed the success of its inaugural Global Biosimilars Week in November 2020 by launching the second incarnation of the initiative, running this week.

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The campaign runs for the first week of November • Source: Alamy

The International Generic and Biosimilar medicines Association has launched the second iteration of its Global Biosimilars Week awareness campaign, which runs from 1 November to 5 November. The initiative follows a successful initial campaign run in late November 2020. (Also see "IGBA Raises Global Awareness With Biosimilars Week" - Generics Bulletin, 11 November, 2020.)

Calling on “all stakeholders to join the biosimilars movement on advancing access,” the global off-patent industry association said that “in...

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