Biopharmaceuticals:recent approvals and likely directions

摘要

Some 160 biopharmaceuticals have now gained medical approval and several hundred are in the pipeline.Most are protein-based,although two nucleic acid-based products are now on the US/European market.An increasing proportion of approvals are engineered in some way and advances in alternative production systems and delivery methods will also likely impact upon the approvals profile over the remainder of this decade.