Author Archives: Jin Ah Jung

Streamlining and Accelerating Biosimilar Adoption in the United States

Biologic medicines have brought extraordinary clinical benefits to patients living with difficult conditions such as cancer and autoimmune and ophthalmic diseases. But such therapies are expensive, accounting for about 43% of pharmaceutical spending in the United States (1). The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) created a regulatory pathway for a class of biologics called biosimilars, which replicate branded biologic drugs at lower cost (2, 3). The BPCIA was designed to provide greater access to biologics by…