Coherus Pulls A Rabbit Out Of The Hat With Inventive Pegfilgrastim Form

Firm Guiding For Q2 Launch, On-Body Injector Set To Follow Later In 2023

Coherus’ year-end financial results included a surprise – a newly approved formulation of pegfilgrastim.

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Coherus BioSciences has been somewhat clandestine about its proposed biosimilar to Amgen’s Neulasta Onpro (pegfilgrastim) on-body injector device, but on its newly approved novel autoinjector form, the “first innovation in the pegfilgrastim space in eight years,” the company had been completely tight-lipped.

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