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Biosimilar use in France

6 August 2021Jason ShafrinLeave a comment

Like generic drugs for small molecules, biosimilars offer the hope for reducing drug prices after biologic therapies lose their patent protections. But how big an impact do biosimilars have and how comfortable are physicians with using these substitute products? A paper by Robinson and Jarrion (2021) use data from France as a case study to…

Public-Private partnership in biologic drug development

19 July 202119 July 2021Jason ShafrinLeave a comment

A paper from Nayak et al. (2021) in JAMA Internal Medicine describes how public-private partnerships have helped bring new biologic drugs to market. Using data on new biologic drugs approved by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Reseach (CDER) and US patent office data, the authors find that: Twenty-nine drugs (42%) showed evidence of…