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Insmed's Follow-on Biologics Campaign Continues

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this year, we reported on the campaign undertaken by Insmed Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in Richmond, VA, to raise national awareness about the importance of establishing a regulatory pathway in the U.S. for follow-on biologics. As part of that campaign, Insmed commissioned an economic study of the cost benefits to patients and healthcare providers from the establishment of a follow-on biologics market in the U.S. The study, which was prepared by economist Dr. Robert J. Shapiro, former Under Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration, concluded that "generic versions of the top 12 categories...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).