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Samsung Epis Targets 20 Biosimilars by 2030, Adds Six Candidates and Readies First ADC Trial

Building on 11 marketed products, leadership plans one new therapeutic to enter trials each year.

Overview

  • At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, CEO Kyung-Ah Kim detailed a 2030 objective to assemble a 20-product biosimilar portfolio.
  • The company named six new biosimilar candidates: dupilumab, guselkumab, ixekizumab, fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki, vedolizumab, and ocrelizumab.
  • The FDA cleared an IND in December 2025 for SBE303, a Nectin-4–targeting antibody-drug conjugate, with a first-in-human Phase 1 study planned in 2026 in the United States and Korea.
  • Samsung Bioepis now markets 11 biosimilars in more than 40 countries, and its pembrolizumab biosimilar is in Phase 1 and 3 clinical trials.
  • The company emphasized continued investment in ADCs, an annual cadence of moving a novel therapeutic into clinical study, and Epis NexLab’s peptide-based delivery platform work.