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Pfizer Is King Of The US Biosimilar Hill

 
• By Bridget Silverman

Four biosimilar candidates are under US FDA review, including what could be Pfizer’s eighth biologic approved under FDA’s 351(k) biologics license application pathway.

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Two biosimilar approvals in less than a month have extended Pfizer Inc.’s already dominant position in the US biosimilars space, bringing the big pharma’s tally of 351(k) biologics license application approvals to seven – accounting for almost one-third of the FDA’s total of 23 approvals using the biosimilar pathway.

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