Boehringer Ingelheim’s Cyltezo (biosimilar, adalimumab) Receives the US FDA’s sBLA Approval as the 1st Interchangeable Biosimilar for Multiple Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

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• The approval is based on the P-III VOLTAIRE-X trial evaluates the effects of multiple switches b/w Humira and Cyltezo in patients with multiple chronic inflammatory diseases
• The study showed that Cyltezo was equivalent to Humira & demonstrated that switching several times b/w Cyltezo and Humira resulted in no clinical differences in PK, efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety b/w both the groups. The results were presented at the AAD 2021 conference
• Currently, Cyltezo is not commercially available in the US, its commercial license will begin on Jul 01, 2023. The FDA originally approved Cyltezo in 2017 to treat multiple chronic inflammatory diseases

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