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Roche’s Port Delivery System Approved, Paving The Way For Ophthalmology Expansion

 
• By Jessica Merrill

Susvimo, a PDS version of the blockbuster Lucentis, is a refillable eye implant that will extend Roche's commercial opportunity in wet-AMD but presents training challenges. Pricing is slightly below Lucentis.

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Wet AMD patients have an option for twice-yearly treatment with Susvimo • Source: Alamy

The US Food and Drug Administration's approval of Susvimo, a new port delivery system (PDS) for administration of a customized formulation of Roche Holding AG's Lucentis (ranibizumab), will provide the company with a continued commercial opportunity in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD or wet AMD) as Lucentis biosimilars approach the market.

Roche’s Genentech, Inc. subsidiary announced FDA approval of Susvimo (ranibizumab injection), a refillable eye implant for use with a customized formulation of the VEGF inhibitor ranibizumab, on 22 October. It is the first of two new commercial opportunities the company hopes to bring to the ophthalmology market in the next six months, with the other being the first bispecific antibody for nAMD, faricimab

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