Strategy analysis

Biosimilars Portfolio and Pipeline Trends, 2016

Biosimilars are expected to drive significant cost savings for healthcare systems, yet there are many considerations that will affect the success of biosimilars, ranging from clinical development, regulatory approval, and ongoing legal disputes around patents. In the US, this is still a seminal period, and for that reason the potential effects of biosimilars in terms of levels of competition are still too early to gauge. Still, European experience with biosimilars may give an indication as to how market dynamics will play out and the degree to which biosimilar sponsors may discount their biosimilars in the US.