Humira One Year Out: The Largest LOE Event In US Pharma History

Amgen’s Amjevita Biosimilar Set To Launch On 31 January 2023 With Many More To Follow

Ahead of the first biosimilar Humira product set to launch in less than a year, In Vivo provides a comprehensive run-down of where biosimilar sponsors stand and the key issues ahead of market formation.

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With Humira, the biosimilar market is set to 'ignite' in 2023 • Source: Frank Harms / Alamy Stock Photo

Not that it needed spelling out, but Organon’s CEO Kevin Ali wished to make sure there were no uncertainties. “That’s going to be the largest loss of exclusivity event in the history of the pharma market in the US,” he told attendees at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January 2022. 

The arrival of the first biosimilar to AbbVie Inc.’s Humira (adalimumab) in exactly one year’s time is to mark...

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