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Coherus Insists Demand Is ‘Pent Up’ For On-Body Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar

As Company Plots ‘Very Careful Review Over Time’ For Udenyca PFS

 
• By Dean Rudge

California-Based Coherus BioSciences delved further into its plans and expectations for its proposed proprietary pegfilgrastim on-body device, as it also detailed continued pricing challenges for the pre-filled syringe formulation.

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Coherus BioSciences says it has “become very clear to us” since its major announcement last month that “there’s really significant pent-up demand in the market for an on-body system in the hands of a biosimilar company such as Udenyca (pegfilgrastim-cbqv),” as it confirmed plans for a 2022 submission of a prior approval supplement to the Udenyca pre-filled syringe formulation.

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