OcyonBio Seeks FDA ‘Gold Star’ For Puerto Rico Biosimilar Manufacturing

Recent Deal Signed With Reliance Life Sciences JV Biosimilar Solutions

In the wake of signing a drug transfer and development agreement with Biosimilar Solutions in the firms’ native Puerto Rico, OcyonBio’s CEO Robert Salcedo spoke with Generics Bulletin about the company’s ambitions to put the US territory on the map for biosimilars.

OcyonBio has acquired rights to seven products • Source: Shutterstock/bobby20

In the space of less than a month, Biosimilar Solutions has initiated registrational clinical trials for biosimilar products referencing the cornerstone granulocyte colony-stimulating factor proteins: Neupogen (filgrastim) and Neulasta (pegfilgrastim).

Biosimilar Solutions is a client and partner of another Puerto Rico-based company, OcyonBio, which describes itself as a cell and...

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