@unseenvalue @punitbansal14
Biosimilar production costs are lower due to lesser number of clinical trials,do not incur costs for marketing, R&D
Time to market 7-8 years
Large molecules upto 2,70,000 Da
Mode - IV,SC
sourced from living organisms
Atleast 1 mandatory clinical trial
15-30% cheaper to biologics
Similar not identical to original drug
@AvinashGoraksha
Development costs approx 3-4 million $
Time to market 2-3 yrs
Simple small mols upto 300Da
Chemical structure identical to reference drug
Oral dosage
No risk of antibody unlike biosimilars
Made by chemical synthesis
No clinical trials
50-90% cheaper
@AdityaKhemka5
Cheaper by 50 to 90 % compared to branded drugs as R&D costs not involved
Similar in quality, efficacy,purity to parent drug
Lower costs,improve patient compliance patients more likely to adhere to treatment protocol
@Gautam__Baid @varinder_bansal
Not all drugs have generic versions
Takes long for patents to expire
Patients maybe allergic to new flavour,color of generic
Rate of absorption varies betn diff generic versions of same drug
Diff in brand appearance,patient confusion
@kiranshaw
Applications in hematology,$4552 million revenue in 2018,3 million Americans have anaemia
In Autoimmune diseases,$1387 million revenue 2018,23 million suffer from IBD,RA,Psoriasis
Develpmnt by rDNA technology,80% market 8123mn$
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