Pfizer's Essential Health Leadership On Why US Biosimilars Will Take Off

Pfizer's Essential Health Leadership On Why US Biosimilars Will Take Off – Eventually

Essential Health Group President Angela Hwang, Biosimilars President Richard Blackburn and US Biosimilars General Manager John Kennedy discuss the early challenges Pfizer has faced with Inflectra and optimism for the US biosimilars market over the long term.

New York, July 19, 2016: Corporate lettering on the exterior of the Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan.

Pfizer Inc. is in the biosimilar market for the long game, despite the commercial challenges it has faced with its first biosimilar to launch in the US – Inflectra (infliximab-dyyb). That was the message the company's Essential Health leadership set out during a briefing on the company's biosimilar strategy at Pfizer's New York headquarters April 10.

"The market for biosimilars is alive and it's real and it's here to stay," Essential Health Group President Angela Hwang...