Inflammatory bowel disease and biosimilars
Over the last 20 years, biological drugs have changed the therapeutic prospect for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases both in the adult and in the child.1 Infliximab was the first drug that, when its patent expired, had biosimilars authorised by EMA, CT-P13 and SB2 respectively in 2013 and 2016.2 The commercialisation of the biosimilars has injected competition in an extremely delicate and expensive sector for the drug industry, with the result that the European Countries have registered a decrease in the official costs of infliximab between 2 and 39%, with peaks over