Tag: biosimilar medicines

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND (June 18, 2026) — Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO; ALVO-SDB) (“Alvotech” or the “Company”), a global biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced the closing on June 17, 2026 of its previously announced underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of 26,066,667 of its ordinary shares at an offering price of $3.75 per share, which includes 3,400,000 ordinary shares issued pursuant to the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional ordinary shares in the Offering. All ordinary shares sold in the Offering were offered by Alvotech. Before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses, the aggregate gross proceeds to the Company were approximately $98 million.

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA), today announced the closing of Teva’s acquisition of Emalex Biosciences, strengthening its late-stage pipeline with ecopipam and further advancing its Pivot to Growth strategy. Phase 3 data for ecopipam were recently published in JAMA Neurology, and a U.S. NDA submission is anticipated in the second half of 2026. 

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO; ALVO-SDB), a global biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review a Biologics License Application (BLA) for AVT16, a proposed interchangeable biosimilar to Entyvio^® (vedolizumab) lyophilized vial for intravenous administration.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY AND LONDON, UK (June 25, 2025) — Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacturing of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, Kashiv Biosciences LLC (“Kashiv”), a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, US, and Advanz Pharma Holdco Limited (“Advanz Pharma”), a UK-headquartered global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines, today announced positive topline results from a confirmatory efficacy study comparing AVT23 (ADL-018), a proposed biosimilar to Xolair® (omalizumab), with the reference biologic.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland and LONDON, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide and Advanz Pharma, a UK headquartered global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines in Europe, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept 2 mg). Based on a positive recommendation by CHMP, biosimilar medicines can be approved by the European Commission for marketing in the European Economic Area, that includes the 27 member states of the European Union, in addition to Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND and LONDON, UK (June 23, 2025) — Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide and Advanz Pharma, a UK headquartered global pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines in Europe, today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept 2 mg). Based on a positive recommendation by CHMP, biosimilar medicines can be approved by the European Commission for marketing in the European Economic Area, that includes the 27 member states of the European Union, in addition to Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.

Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO, ALVO-SDB, the “Company”), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced the completion of a private placement that was carried out on June 4, 2025, directed to Swedish and international institutional investors. About 40 institutional investors participated in the placement. About 60% of the demand came from institutional investors based in Sweden, Norway or the UK, and about 30% from US-based funds. Over 80% of the shares and Swedish Depositary Receipts (SDRs) allocated in the placement, were sold to investors that were not previously shareholders in Alvotech.