Second Exercise (part 2) Flashcards
Biologics are?
class of compounds which are manufactured by using living cells or organisms
Biosimilar refers to?
biological medicine which is comparable to it’s reference medicine.
what is an example of a small variation with biologics and biosilimlars?
glycosylation of protein chain
what is the distinction between generics and biosimilar?
generics: small molecule, same API, BE
Biosimilars: comlex molecules, highly similar to the refence product (not identical to the reference product, Non-clinical and Clinical studies
What has to be proven in biosimilars?
no clinical difference in efficacy, safety and potency to teh reference product
which guidelies covered the biological medicines?
ICH Q6B and ICH Q5E and Q5C
what are the three premier steps to compared biologics and biosimilar?
Comparative quality /analytical studies
Comparative non-clinical studies
Comparative clinical studies
what is the unified system in USA and EU?
USA: pooled system in each state of US
EU: each EU memer state has it own system for determining which therapeutics will be approved
what is the aim of the Article 58?
to promote the development of medicines for low and middle-income countires and to address unmet medical need
developers benefits from?
EMA tool kit (Scientifc advice, PRIME, AA
what is the eligibility for Article 58
cover high priority medicines that are of major public interest (HIV/AIDS, malaria or meternal and new-born health
what does the request content
eligibility for the product and SmPC
which authority works together in the Article submission process
EMA and WHO
what were some weaknessess of the implementation and execution?
Low awareness of national requlatory authories
WHO was barely invloved into the processes of the EMA
incentives for manufacturers were low ( high feed
What is the EU-M4all procedure?
rebrande of the article 58
what was benefical with the EU-M4all?
usage of the PRIME procedures,
centralized procedure
example of a product ( EU-M4all)
pyramax use for malaria
importation of parallel means?
import of products from acountry where they sold at cheaper price and exported to high-price country for resale without the permission of intellectual property (IP) authorization holders
what are the different types of policies for parallel import?
intellecutual property, trade and competition