Celltrion's Biosimilar Clinical Evidence Heavily Weighted By Ex-US Data

On FDA's advice, Inflectra sponsor conducted three-way pharmacokinetic bridging study to justify relevance of clinical comparative efficacy data using European version of Remicade.

Like Zarxio sponsor Sandoz Inc. before it, Celltrion Inc. is leveraging an extensive foreign clinical development program to make the case for biosimilarity to a US reference product.

The clinical development program for Inflectra (CT-P13) included nine completed studies, only one of which was conducted specifically to support...

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