The European Generic medicines Association (EGA) is the association and the official representative body of the European Generic and Biosimilar pharmaceutical industry, which is at the forefront of providing high-quality affordable Medicines to millions of Europeans and stimulating competitiveness and innovation in the pharmaceutical sector.
Interferon beta 1a is sold under the trade names Avonex (Biogen Idec) and Rebif (Merck Serono), (Pfizer); CinnoVex (CinnaGen) is biosimilar.
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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.