Samsung Bioepis develops biosimilars of trastuzumab, bevacizumab and other antibodies, made by its parent Samsung Biologics at Songdo.
Samsung Bioepis was founded in 2012 as a joint venture between Samsung Biologics and Biogen and became wholly owned by Samsung Biologics in 2022. It develops biosimilars, among them trastuzumab (Ontruzant) and bevacizumab (Aybintio), which are manufactured at Samsung Biologics' Songdo plants and sold with partners in Europe and the United States.
The first targeted antibody for a solid tumour (1998), which turned HER2-positive breast cancer from the worst subtype into one of the most treatable.
Bevacizumab is a humanised antibody that soaks up VEGF-A, the signal tumours use to grow new blood vessels. Approved in 2004, it partners chemotherapy in colorectal, ovarian, cervical, lung, kidney and liver cancer and glioblastoma, and adds to trifluridine/tipiracil in late-line bowel cancer; hypertension, protein in the urine and bleeding are its characteristic side effects.
Shares Antibody manufacturing (CHO bioprocessing) and the tag manufacturing-wave.
Shares Antibody manufacturing (CHO bioprocessing), Biosimilar manufacturing and comparability, Trastuzumab, Bevacizumab and the tag manufacturing-wave.
Shares Antibody manufacturing (CHO bioprocessing), Biosimilar manufacturing and comparability and the tag manufacturing-wave.
Shares Antibody manufacturing (CHO bioprocessing) and the tag manufacturing-wave.
Shares Antibody manufacturing (CHO bioprocessing) and the tag manufacturing-wave.
Shares Biosimilar manufacturing and comparability, Trastuzumab, Bevacizumab.
Shares Trastuzumab, Colorectal cancer.
Shares Trastuzumab, HER2-positive breast cancer.