In an acquisition said by both US-based companies to be highly complementary, Azurity Pharmaceuticals has taken control of Slayback Pharma for an undisclosed fee.

Ahead of the Global Generics & Biosimilars Awards, which are this year being held on Wednesday 25 October at the Hotel Porta Fira in Barcelona, we reveal our final shortlist of entrants across all 14 categories.

Despite winning a landmark multi-billion-dollar antitrust suit earlier this year, Gilead Sciences has seen a US court give an initial green light allowing it to shell out nearly $250m to settle antitrust claims from direct purchasers of its two major HIV drugs.

While it currently sits in fourth place, Amneal’s co-CEO Chirag Patel has laid out ambitions for the firm to become the number one supplier of affordable medicines in the US.

Ahead of the Global Generics & Biosimilars Awards, which are this year being held on Wednesday 25 October at the Hotel Porta Fira in Barcelona, we reveal our final shortlist of entrants across all 14 categories.

As biosimilars to Stelara (ustekinumab) continue to advance in global markets, Rani Therapeutics has made progress for its proposed RT-111 orally administered ustekinumab biosimilar.

While it currently sits in fourth place, Amneal’s co-CEO Chirag Patel has laid out ambitions for the firm to become the number one supplier of affordable medicines in the US.

As the US Food and Drug Administration re-evaluates the need for comparative clinical efficacy studies for biosimilars, Leah Christl – executive director for global biosimilars regulatory affairs and R&D policy at Amgen, and former associate director for therapeutic biologics at the FDA – suggests that any reforms should be careful not to tie the agency’s hands in evaluating biosimilarity.

In an acquisition said by both US-based companies to be highly complementary, Azurity Pharmaceuticals has taken control of Slayback Pharma for an undisclosed fee.

Ahead of the Global Generics & Biosimilars Awards, which are this year being held on Wednesday 25 October at the Hotel Porta Fira in Barcelona, we reveal our final shortlist of entrants across all 14 categories.

As biosimilars to Stelara (ustekinumab) continue to advance in global markets, Rani Therapeutics has made progress for its proposed RT-111 orally administered ustekinumab biosimilar.

Coherus BioSciences says that it will work closely with the US Food and Drug Administration and the unnamed third-party filler to obtain approval for its proposed version of Neulasta Onpro on-body injector “as quickly as possible.”