Biogen Canada announced that Quebec will reimburse patients receiving BYOOVIZ® (ranibizumab), biosimilar to Genentech’s Lucentis®, for certain retinal conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the presence of choroidal neovascularization, and visual deficiency caused by diabetic macular edema (DME).
BYOOVIZ® is the first biosimilar approved in Canada (on 2 March 2023) to treat neovascular (wet) AMD and DME.