by April Breyer Menon | Mar 15, 2024
On March 11, 2024, the White House released President Biden’s FY 2025 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Budget in Brief, which outlines $130.7 billion in discretionary funding for HHS. Included in the budget proposal is a provision that would eliminate...
by April Breyer Menon | Mar 15, 2024
On March 5, 2024, the FDA approved Sandoz’s Jubbonti® and Wyost® (denosumab-bddz) as the first biosimilars of Amgen’s Prolia® and Xgeva® (denosumab). The launch date for these biosimilars has not been announced as Amgen and Sandoz continue their BPCIA litigation in...
by April Breyer Menon | Mar 13, 2024
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by April Breyer Menon | Mar 12, 2024
On March 5, 2024, the FDA approved Fresenius Kabi’s Tyenne® (tocilizumab-aazg) as a biosimilar of Chugai, Genentech and Hoffman-La Roche’s Actemra® (tocilizumab). This is the second Actemra® biosimilar to be approved in the U.S., following the approval of Biogen and...
by April Breyer Menon | Mar 12, 2024
On March 4, 2024, Merck Sharp & Dohme, LLC (“Merck”) filed four IPRs challenging The Johns Hopkins University (“JHU”) patents covering methods of treatment using pembrolizumab, which Merck sells under the trade name Keytruda®. The four IPRs are IPR2024-00622...