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Boehringer Ingelheim’s Pagnotta On Adalimumab And Interchangeability

As Cyltezo Rival To Humira Hits US, Firm Says It Is ‘Uniquely Positioned’ In Biosimilars Market

 
• By Dave Wallace

As Boehringer Ingelheim launches the first – and so far, only – interchangeable US adalimumab biosimilar, the firm’s biosimilar commercial brand lead Stephen Pagnotta talks about how the interchangeability designation puts the firm in a unique position when it comes to competing with Humira.

Stephen Pagnotta
Stephen Pagnotta is biosimilar commercial brand lead at Boehringer Ingelheim • Source: Boehringer Ingelheim

In an unprecedently competitive biosimilar market, only one of the several newly launched US rivals to Humira (adalimumab) boasts a US Food and Drug Administration designation of interchangeability: Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cyltezo (adalimumab-adbm) version. 

An interchangeability designation allows a pharmacist to substitute a biosimilar for its reference biologic without consulting the original prescriber, subject...

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