Curing people.
Healing lives.

Improving access to biosimilars
for patients across the globe.

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EU GMP certified facility

Driving biosimilar development
from Gene to GMP

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Delivering high quality
biosimilars

Transforming healthcare
through affordable therapies.

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WHO WE ARE

Our Vision

Our vision is to improve the wellbeing of patients suffering from debilitating illnesses by providing them with an access to high quality and cost-effective biosimilars.

Our Mission

Deliver exceptional value to stakeholders and better health outcomes to patients by becoming a leading global biosimilars developer by 2030.

Build deep capabilities in development and manufacturing to deliver quality and cost-effective biosimilars for patients across the globe.

Create a sustainable and broad portfolio of biosimilars with a focus on oncology and immunology therapies.

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OUR STRATEGY

Business Strategy

Our biosimilars business strategy is built around the following five core themes:

  1. Focus on Oncology and Immunology segments
  2. Invest in deep development capabilities and in-house manufacturing
  3. Commercialise in EU and EMs, with select products for the US markets
  4. Deliver sustainable growth and create long term value through a carefully selected product pipeline
  5. Provide clinical and economic benefit to patients through affordable and high quality biosimilars
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OUR STRATEGY

Regulatory Strategy

Most regulatory authorities are working towards a standard framework for biosimilars development as more evidence about their safety and efficacy is becoming available.

The need for efficacy trials to the subject of interchangeability are being debated as new regulatory guidelines become available.

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Wherever possible, CuraTeQ has strategically adopted an abridged licensure approach to push the time-to-market barriers and shorten product development timelines by:

  • Demonstrating analytical biosimilarity and PK/PD comparability vis-a-vis the reference product
  • Having early engagement with regulatory agencies (US FDA, EMA, MHRA etc.) to obtain the necessary buy-ins about Phase 3 clinical study requirements
  • Leveraging feedback from regulatory agencies to address any “residual uncertainty” based on the evidence of analytical biosimilarity and clinical pharmacology assessment

We believe to the extent possible, efficacy trials in patients may not be always necessary provided biosimilarity can be proven through a thorough analytical assessment and PK/PD studies.

Having said that, CuraTeQ Biologics believes in constructively engaging with the regulatory agencies and doing what is necessary to bring these life saving biosimilars to the patients across the globe.

As on date, CuraTeQ Biologics has filed three biosimilars with regulatory agencies based on analytical biosimilarity and PK/PD data, while we are also conducting Phase 3 clinical studies for three of our other products.

What are Biosimilars?

US FDA

As per US FDA, a biosimilar is a biological product that is highly similar to the reference product notwithstanding minor differences in clinically inactive components and has no clinically meaningful differences between the biological product and the reference product in terms of safety, purity, and potency of the product.1

MHRA

As per MHRA, a biosimilar is a biological medicinal product that contains a version of the active substance of an already authorised original biological medicinal product i.e. the reference product (RP). A biosimilar should be highly similar to the RP in physicochemical properties, biological activity/potency and clinical profiles.2

EMA

As per EMA, a biosimilar is a biological medicine highly similar to another already approved biological medicine (the ‘reference medicine’). Biosimilars are approved according to the same standards of pharmaceutical quality, safety and efficacy that apply to all biological medicine.3

CDSCO

As per CDSCO, a biosimilar is a biological product which is similar in terms of quality, safety, and efficacy to reference biological product licensed or approved in India based on comparability, or any innovator product approved in International Council of Harmonisation (ICH) member countries.4

References:

  1. US FDA: Section 351(k) of the PHS ACT (42 U.S.C. 262(k)), 2010.
  2. MHRA: Guidance on the Licensing of Biosimilar Products, 2022.
  3. EMA: Guideline on Similar Biological Medicinal Products, CHMP/437/04 Rev 1, 2015.
  4. DBT-CDSCO: Guidelines on Similar Biologics: Regulatory Requirements for Marketing Authorisation in India, 2016.

Evolving Paradigm for Biosimilars1

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Current Biosimilar Product

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References:
1. Adapted from “BsUFA III Regulatory Research Pilot Program: Research Roadmap, 2023

OUR CAPABILITIES

Development Capabilities

The CuraTeQ Biologics R&D Centre has a footprint of 33,000 sq. ft and employs more than 125 scientists.

A number of PhDs are involved in developing our portfolio of biosimilars.

Key features of our R&D capabilities:

Cell line development

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Fermentation sciences

Mammalian cell culture

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Protein purification

Process characterisation

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Analytical product characterisation

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Formulations

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Cell based functional assays

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Clinical immunology

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OUR CAPABILITIES

cGMP Capabilities

Our biosimilars manufacturing centre in Hyderabad, India, is an EU GMP certified fully integrated commercial scale facility.

It has end-to-end capabilities in producing a full range of products from bulk drug substance (DS) to fill-finish and packaged drug products (DP).

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Key features of our EU GMP certified facilities:

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140,000 sq. ft. ‘EU GMP certified’ manufacturing facility

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Mammalian Drug Substance manufacturing section housing four 2500 L scale SS bioreactors

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Microbial Drug Substance manufacturing section housing two 250 L scale SS bioreactors

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Segregated filling sections for Vials and Pre-filled syringes/cartridges

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Systems designed as per 21 CFR Part 11, and GAMP 5 ISPE guidelines

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QC testing laboratories for products lot release, raw material, packaging material, microbiology and sterility testing

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Centrally located warehouse for ease of servicing various manufacturing sections

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Designed for optimal man and material movement to mitigate cross contamination

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Designed for automated Clean-In-Place (CIP) and Sterilisation-In-Place (SIP) operations

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Automated buffer distribution and handling capabilities

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Continuous monitoring through Building Management Systems (BMS)

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Water for Injection (WFI) generation facility with cold and hot loops

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