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Alvotech Highlights Lack Of Simponi Rivals As It Delivers Golimumab Results

Company Is First To Announce Positive Results, With Only One Other Confirmed Study

 
• By Dave Wallace

Alvotech has just become the first company to announce positive topline results from a confirmatory clinical study for a proposed golimumab rival to Simponi and Simponi Aria – and moreover, the firm sees limited competition from other biosimilars on the horizon.

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Alvotech is alone in having announced positive results for golimumab • Source: Shutterstock

Alvotech has pointed to a distinct lack of other rivals in the market for golimumab biosimilars, as the firm delivered positive topline results for its AVT05 candidate.

The confirmatory clinical study for the proposed biosimilar to Janssen’s Simponi and Simponi Aria “met its primary endpoint in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis,” Alvotech reported, underlining that it was “the first company to publicly

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