Pfizer Announces Top-Line Results for Potential Biosimilar to Rituxan/Mabthera
January 24, 2018 at 07:00 pm IST
Pfizer Inc. announced that REFLECTIONS B3281006, a comparative safety and efficacy study of PF-05280586 versus MabThera (rituximab-EU), met its primary endpoint. PF-05280586 is being developed by Pfizer as a potential biosimilar to Rituxan (rituximab-US)/MabThera. The trial demonstrated equivalence in overall response rate (ORR) for the first-line treatment of patients with CD20-positive, low tumor burden, follicular lymphoma. The company biosimilars pipeline consists of seven distinct biosimilar molecules in mid to late stage development, with three of these in oncology, as well as several others in early stage development.