Many Firsts As Celltrion/Pfizer’s Inflectra Becomes Second US Biosimilar

Move over Zarxio, there's a new kid in town: Inflectra (infliximab-dyyb), which won the FDA's nod on April 5 as the first monoclonal antibody biosimilar licensed in the US, although it's going to be a while before patients have access to the new drug, since Celltrion and Pfizer said they won't put it on the market until after June 29.

Celltrion Inc./Pfizer Inc.‘s biosimilar infliximab, Inflectra, has been approved by the US FDA as the first such antibody product in this market.

However, the companies have remained mum on Inflectra's pricing, with Pfizer telling PharmAsia News’s sister publication Scrip Intelligence in a...

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