US Biosimilar Approvals In 2021 Were Few But Included Many Firsts

With biosimilars increasingly gaining traction in the US in recent years thanks to multi-source competition on certain key products, as well as healthy uptake in treatment areas such as oncology, 2021 saw the US biosimilars market take further steps forward with a number of firsts.

These included the first US Food and Drug Administration designations of biosimilar interchangeability, the launch of the first interchangeable biosimilar, and the first