FDA Biosimilars Guidances Address Immunogenicity Studies, European Bridge Data, Analytics
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The agency’s first three draft guidances on biosimilar product development describe how to characterize biosimilar and reference products and extrapolate data on one condition of use to another. FDA says interchangeability is difficult to determine now and will require a switching study.
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