Per a report in BioCentury, the FDA has added to its agenda of new and revised draft guidances that its Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) intends to publish in 2015 an item titled "Nonproprietary naming for biological products," intended to clarify the agency's thinking on biosimilar naming.
Stay tuned.
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