Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) US affiliate and Alvotech (ALVO) said Friday that the Selarsdi injection is now available in the US to treat psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, pediatric plaque psoriasis and pediatric psoriatic arthritis.
Selarsdi is biosimilar to Stelara and it is the second biosimilar now available in the country under the Teva and Alvotech collaboration, they added.
The US Food and Drug Administration provisionally determined that Selarsdi is interchangeable with the reference biologic Stelara after the first interchangeable biosimilar expires, on April 30, the parties said.
Teva Pharmaceutical's stock rose 2.7%, while Alvotech's shares were up 3% in recent Friday premarket activity.
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