IGBA Launches Global Biosimilars Week 2021

Follows Inaugural Event In November Last Year

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.

1 November 2021 Calendar
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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