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Biosimilars – Understanding the Regulatory Processes and the Commercial Realities
2 October 2015
Biosimilars – Understanding the Regulatory Processes and the Commercial Realities

This workshop aims to give participants a good overview of the whole topic of Biosimilars while investigating some topics in more depth. Biosimilars have attracted a great deal of interest and represent a new generic frontier as it is thought that lower levels of competition will lead to higher margins in an industry notorious for its generally low margins.

Lower regulatory barriers in less regulated markets have allowed a Biosimilars market to take off, but higher regulatory barriers in Europe and issues of interchangeability have resulted in slow progress for those already in the market. Across the Atlantic, the situation is changing with the long awaited legislation enabling the first Biosimilars registration. How will the market develop there as multinational players start to enter?

Workshop LEADER

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Peter Wittner

Senior Consultant, Interpharm Consultancy

Peter Wittner, B.Sc., is an independent consultant specialising in the commercial aspects of generics with more than 35 years’ pharmaceutical experience. In one of his industry roles, he joined the Indian generic leader Ranbaxy as Managing Director to help set up its UK business before returning to consultancy work (http://www.interpharm-consultancy.co.uk).

He previously headed the European Sales & Marketing department of the UK generics companies Evans Medical, which later became Medeva, and H.N. Norton, which later became part of IVAX and subsequently Teva.

Peter is a regular speaker at generic conferences, has run Biosimilars workshops for a number of organisations as well as conducting training seminars. He has written a number of reports on generics industry topics.

Interpharm Consultancy

Interpharm Consultancy has been serving the generic pharmaceutical industry since 1997. With a background of over 20 years in generics, we specialise in:

  • advising on growth strategies or market entry strategies
  • helping with business development
  • competitive intelligence
  • providing a link between firms in the UK and overseas companies trying to gain entry into this very competitive marketplace
  • training on understanding the generic marketplace, IP and regulatory issues
  • locating products and registration dossiers for UK companies and
  • assisting branded companies to plan their defence strategies against generics
  • offering help to companies looking for generic acquisitions

Workshop agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Introduction and Opening Remarks

Peter Wittner, Senior Consultant, Interpharm Consultancy

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9:15

Overview - Biosimilars? Biogenerics? Follow-on Biologicals?

  • What are we actually talking about?
  • Summary of issues affecting biosimilars
    - Regulatory
    - Commercial
    - Legal/IP
  • Interchangeability - what is the issue?
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    10:00

    The Regulatory process and its pitfalls

  • Europe: A straight forward case
    - EMEA guidelines
    - Overview of successful and failed applications
  • US: The juggernaut begins to move
  • India, China and other countries?
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    10:45

    Morning Coffee

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    11:15

    Biosimilars - The commercial reality

  • What is the big attraction?
    - Biologicals market and prospects
  • The story so far...
    - Europe and the USA
    - Asian markets and Latin America
  • Patents, IP and other issues
    - What are the patent issues?
    - Interchangeability - a potential roadblock
    - Differing national legislation
  • Where do Biosimilars gof rom here?
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    12:15

    Discussion and Q&A

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    12:30

    Close of Workshop

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