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Biosimilars... Not rituxan, but 'highly similar' to rituxan?

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Biosimilar --- WHO definition.

'A biotherapeutic product which is similar in terms of quality, safety and efficacy to an already licensed reference biotherapeutic product.'

Dr. Sharman... raises some questions...

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Be interesting to see the results of a poll on who would be interested in joining a trial for a Rituximab biosimilar...

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Very true Neil... Frankly, I would rather have Samsung, make my TV than my rituxan biosimilar...

Only Apple makes my phones... but maybe they are brewing ibrutinib on Cupertino...who knows...follow the money! :-)

Actually, Samsung has pulled out of the rituxan biosimilar race...but many companies remain... 7 billion annual market... tempting.

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