Barbier, Liese http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1786-2080
Simoens, Steven http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-2005
Vulto, Arnold G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8439-2800
Huys, Isabelle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4738-8298
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Medical Center Rotterdam
Article History
First Online: 3 November 2020
Declarations
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: This manuscript is funded by the KU Leuven Fund on Market Analysis of Biologics and Biosimilars following Loss of Exclusivity (MABEL Fund).
: IH, SS and AGV are founders of the KU Leuven Fund on Market Analysis of Biologics and Biosimilars following Loss of Exclusivity (MABEL Fund). AGV is involved in consulting, advisory work and speaking engagements for a number of companies, i.e., AbbVie, Accord, Amgen, Biogen, EGA, Pfizer/Hospira, Mundipharma, Roche, Novartis, Sandoz and Boehringer Ingelheim. SS was involved in a stakeholder roundtable on biologics and biosimilars sponsored by Amgen, Pfizer and MSD. He has participated in advisory board meetings for Pfizer and Amgen; and he has contributed to studies on biologics and biosimilars for Hospira, Celltrion, Mundipharma and Pfizer. IH and LB declare no conflict of interest. LB declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationship that could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest.
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Education-Guidance Committee for Medical Ethics in delegation of the Ethics Committee of UZ/KU Leuven (MP001375, Belgium).
: All interviewees provided their written informed consent to participate in the study.
: All interviewees provided their written informed consent for using the encoded and anonymized data from their interview for publication in scientific journals.
: The interview data are not publicly available as they contain information that could compromise interviewees’ privacy and consent.
: Not applicable.
: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. LB conducted the structured literature review. LB together with four pharmacy students conducted and coded the interviews. LB analysed the literature and interview data and prepared the first draft of the manuscript. All authors reviewed and commented on the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. No data, figures or tables have been published previously and the manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere.
: The authors thank the interviewees for their participation and willingness to share their insights. The authors also thank S. Ozcicek, S. Pinoy, L. Stragier and C. Vanneste for their help with conducting and processing interviews.