Centocor Submits Golimumab BLA

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Centocor’s BLA has been submitted to the FDA requesting approval of golimumab (CNTO 148) as a monthly subcutaneous treatment for adults with active forms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. Golimumab is the company’s next-generation human anti-TNF-alpha monoclonal antibody. It’s being studied as an every four-week subcutaneous injection and as an intravenous (IV) infusion therapy. In February 2008, the company submitted a MAA to the EME...

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