Biosimilar Infliximab Success Paves The Way For Adalimumab In Europe

With the impending European launch of Humira biosimilar adalimumab in October, Scrip talks to some of those in the region that have experience in launching commercially successful biosimilars about uptake, discounts and payer attitudes.

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“The next big one that comes to the market is adalimumab,” says [Napp Pharmaceutical Group Ltd.]’s director of market access and external affairs Andrew Roberts, when discussing the uptake of monoclonal antibody (MAb) biosimilars in the UK. Currently the biosimilar with the widest distribution in the UK is infliximab, with around 600,000 units distributed a year.

“The NHS policy of savings on medicines has been in place for almost a decade so manufacturers were frustrated that the NHS wasn’t doing more about biosimilars use,” says Roberts. “However, the speed at which policy moved and uptake improved was quite astonishing and over the last 18 months we’ve started to see far less barriers to uptake in the whole of the UK

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