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Hikma Announces Launch of Stelara® (ustekinumab) Biosimilar Starjemza™

by Leah Watson; Robert S. Schwartz, Ph.D.
November 9, 2025

On November 6, 2025, Hikma announced the U.S. launch of Starjemza™ (ustekinumab-hmny), a biosimilar of Janssen / Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara® (ustekinumab).  Starjemza™ is approved for all the reference product’s indications, including certain patients with plaque psoriasis, active psoriatic arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis.

Numerous other biosimilars have launched this year, including Amgen’s interchangeable biosimilar Wezlana™ (ustekinumab-auub) on January 1, 2025 (previously reported Amgen Launches Wezlana™ as the First Stelara® Interchangeable Biosimilar through Optum’s Nuvaila), Alvotech / Teva’s interchangeable Selarsdi™ (ustekinumab-aekn) on February 21, 2025, Sandoz / Samsung Bioepis’s Pyzchiva® (ustekinumab-ttwe) and Biocon’s Yesintek™ (ustekinumab-kfce) on February 24, 2025 (previously reported Stelara® Biosimilars Launch and Licensing Dispute Begins), Fresenius Kabi / Formycon’s interchangeable Otulfi™ (ustekinumab-aauz) on March 3, 2025, Celltrion’s Steqeyma™ (ustekinumab-stba) on March 13, 2025 (previously reported March Stelara® Biosimilar Launches: Fresenius Kabi’s Otulfi® and Celltrion’s Steqeyma™), and Accord’s Imuldosa® (ustekinumab-srlf) on August 18, 2025 (previously reported Accord Announces Launch of Stelara® (ustekinumab) Biosimilar Imuldosa®).

Johnson & Johnson reported Stelara® U.S. sales of $6.72B in 2024.

For more information about these and other biosimilar patent disputes, please visit BiologicsHQ.

 

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The authors would like to thank April Breyer Menon for her contributions to this article.

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