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3 unusual facts about Interferon beta 1a


Interferon beta 1a

Interferon beta 1b is marketed only by Bayer in the US as Betaseron and outside the US as Betaferon.

Interferon beta 1a is sold under the trade names Avonex (Biogen Idec) and Rebif (Merck Serono), (Pfizer); CinnoVex (CinnaGen) is biosimilar.

Cinnovex was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in collaboration with CinnaGen, and is the first therapeutic protein from a Fraunhofer laboratory to be approved as biogeneric / biosimilar medicine.



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