As per a regulatory filing on BSE, Biocon Biologics India, a subsidiary of Biocon, and Mylan N.V., announced the US launch of Semglee.
Shares of Biocon jumped
over 5 percent in morning trade on BSE on September 1, a day after the company
announced the launch of a diabetes drug in the US market.
As per a regulatory filing on
BSE, Biocon Biologics India, a subsidiary of Biocon, and Mylan N.V., announced
the US launch of Semglee™ (insulin glargine injection) in a vial and pre-filled
pen presentations, approved to help control high blood sugar in adult and pediatric
patients with type 1 diabetes and adults with type 2 diabetes.
It is not recommended for the
treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis. Semglee, which received final approval from
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has an identical amino acid sequence
to Sanofi’s Lantus® and is approved for the same indications, the BSE filing
said.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Executive
Chairperson, Biocon said: “The commercialization of our insulin glargine in the
US represents another milestone achievement for Biocon in making insulin-based
therapy increasingly accessible for people with diabetes globally."
"We are confident that
along with our long-standing partner Mylan, we will be able to address the
needs of millions of patients living with diabetes in the US Leveraging our
science and global scale manufacturing expertise, we have been expanding affordable
access to biosimilar insulins to patients in Japan, Australia, Europe, India
and key emerging markets. The US launch of Semglee takes us closer to realizing
our aspiration of reaching ‘one in five’ insulin dependent people with diabetes
worldwide.”
Shares of Biocon traded
5.10 percent up at Rs 395.60 on BSE at 11:00 hours.
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