A list of EU biosimilar filings, CHMP opinions and EU marketing authorizations, including details of the biosimilar company, the brand name/INN, indication(s), the reference product/company, and the date and type of event.
The table below shows EU regulatory developments in the biosimilars area in 2018-24. It covers new product filings with the European Medicines Agency, opinions from the EMA’s drug evaluation committee, the CHMP, withdrawals of marketing authorization applications (MAAs), and decisions on biosimilar marketing authorizations by the European Commission.
The latest update of the table, compiled on 2 December, includes the approval of biosimilar versions of aflibercept
US FDA Commissioner Martin Makary’s call for placebo-controlled trials to confirm the efficacy of COVID-19 boosters is drawing a lot of criticism, but former Commissioner Robert Califf also supported the idea.
Autolus’s CAR T therapy obe-cel is among the medicines that are this week due for an opinion by the European Medicines Agency on whether they should be marketed in the EU.
The European Medicines Agency is due to decide whether GSK’s previously approved multiple myeloma drug that was withdrawn from the market in 2022 should be approved again for use in combination with BorDex or PomDex. Meanwhile, Japan today became the second major regulator to approve the Blenrep combinations.
