Articles

Regulatory

Published on 06 February 2015

Health Canada’s perspective on the clinical development of biosimilars and related scientific and regulatory challenges

Abstract: Biologicals have offered a new avenue for targeting therapy to treat life-threatening and chronic diseases. The recent or pending patent expirations of many successful biologicals have permitted the marketing...

Author(s): Agnes V Klein, MD, DPH, Jian Wang, MD, PhD, Ally Pen, PhD

biologicals, biosimilars, clinical trials, extrapolation, immunogenicity, regulatory

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.009

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Review Article

Published on 26 March 2015

The refinement of the super generic concept: semantic challenge for product re-innovation?

Background: Uptake of super generic or hybrid pharmaceuticals has decelerated despite their important economic potential for the generic pharmaceutical industry. The aim of switching to these product portfolios was to...

Author(s): Fereshteh Barei, PhD, Malcolm Ross

505(b)(2) approvals, generics, improved therapeutics, innovation, new therapeutics entities, super generic

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.007

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Original Research

Published on 16 December 2014

Payer and physician evidence and discount requirements for biosimilars in three Latin American countries

Study objectives: In Latin America, many governments have attempted to address biosimilar safety and efficacy concerns by developing abbreviated regulatory pathways to increase access while controlling quality. This study explores...

Author(s): André Vidal Pinheiro, PhD, Associate Professor Valderilio Feijó Azevedo, MD, PhD, MSc, Daniele Severi Bruni, MPhil, Ronald Halbert, MD, MPH, Erik Sandorff, MA, MBA

biosimilar pharmaceuticals, discounts, drug industry, Latin America, prescribing

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.005

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Original Research

Published on 16 December 2014

What pricing and reimbursement policies to use for off-patent biologicals? – Results from the EBE 2014 biological medicines policy survey

Objective: One of the questions that the advent of biosimilars raises is whether the different nature of biological medicines would also imply the need for a different policy approach by...

Author(s): European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises

biological medicines, biosimilars, off-patent market, pricing and reimbursement policy

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.006

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Pharma News

Published on 06 March 2015

Top developments in biosimilars during 2014

Submitted: 10 February 2015; Revised: 24 February 2015; Accepted: 25 February 2015; Published online first: 6 March 2015 The past year has once again been a busy one for the...

Author(s): GaBI Journal Editor

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.010

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Published on 30 January 2015

Generics authorization – groundbreaking regulatory approach to closer international cooperation on the rise – IGDRP

Submitted: 24 January 2015; Revised: not applicable; Accepted: 27 January 2015; Published online first: 30 January 2015 The ‘International Generic Drug Regulators Pilot’ (IGDRP) seems to be a true model...

Author(s): Christoph Baumgärtel, MD, MSc, DI Dr Katharina Gazda-Pleban

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.011

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Commentary

Published on 16 December 2014

The EU regulatory approach to generics and biosimilars is essentially similar

Abstract: Notwithstanding the scientific and regulatory differences between generic and biosimilar medicines, the European Medicines Agency/Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has consistently applied a ‘same active substance’ approach...

Author(s): Barbara J van Zwieten-Boot, Marcel Hoefnagel, Peter MJM Jongen, R Martijn van der Plas

active substance, biosimilar, EMA, Europe, guidelines, regulatory

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.004

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Editorial

Published on 25 March 2015

Biosimilars: patient and physician acceptability is the fifth hurdle to market competition

Abstract: Biosimilar products confront novel market authorization and post-marketing use hurdles. Existing evidence is insufficient to fully address physician and payer acceptability thresholds. Submitted: 4 March 2015; Revised: 5 March...

Author(s): Professor Alan Lyles, BSPharm, MPH, ScD

acceptability, biologicals, biosimilars, interchangeability, pricing

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.002

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Editor's Letter

Published on 26 March 2015

Editor’s introduction to the initial issue of the fourth volume of GaBI Journal

This first 2015 GaBI Journal issue (fourth volume of the journal) is being published soon after the first US biosimilar approval and it contains a number of articles that illustrate...

Author(s): Professor Philip D Walson, MD

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2015.0401.001

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Meeting Report

Published on 12 March 2015

2014 World Transplant Congress, San Francisco, California, USA, 26–31 July 2014

This was a joint meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), The Transplant Society (TTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (ATS). The Congress was packed with an...

Author(s): Professor Philip D Walson, MD

DOI: 10.5639/gabij.2014.0304.047

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