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Meiji’s Stelara Biosimilar Shows Therapeutic Equivalence; Filing Eyed in 2023
Meiji Seika Pharma said on January 20 that its biosimilar version of Stelara (ustekinumab) being developed with South Korean partner Dong-A ST demonstrated its therapeutic equivalence to the reference product in a global PIII study for the treatment of psoriasis.…
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