Comparative Efficacy and Safety Study of GP2015 and Enbrel® in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Summary

Demonstrate equivalent efficacy of GP2015 and EU-authorized Enbrel in patients with moderate to severe, active (RA) who had an inadequate response to disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARD) including methotrexate (MTX).

Timeline

Start

2015-02-21

Primary completion

2016-12-29

Completion

2017-06-12

Publications

• Thaci D, Gerdes S, Schulze-Koops H, Allanore Y, Kavanaugh A, Both C, Gattu S, Hachaichi S, Matucci-Cerinic M. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, or Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with GP2015, an Etanercept Biosimilar: Results from Two Phase III Studies (EGALITY and EQUIRA). Drugs R D. 2025 Jun;25(2):107-115. doi: 10.1007/s40268-025-00507-8. Epub 2025 Apr 25.
• Jaworski J, Matucci-Cerinic M, Schulze-Koops H, Buch MH, Kucharz EJ, Allanore Y, Kavanaugh A, Young P, Babic G. Switch from reference etanercept to SDZ ETN, an etanercept biosimilar, does not impact efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of etanercept in patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis: 48-week results from the phase III, randomized, double-blind EQUIRA study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2019 May 28;21(1):130. doi: 10.1186/s13075-019-1907-x.
• Matucci-Cerinic M, Allanore Y, Kavanaugh A, Buch MH, Schulze-Koops H, Kucharz EJ, Woehling H, Babic G, Poetzl J, Davis A, Schwebig A. Efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of GP2015, an etanercept biosimilar, compared with the reference etanercept in patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis: 24-week results from the comparative phase III, randomised, double-blind EQUIRA study. RMD Open. 2018 Nov 14;4(2):e000757. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000757. eCollection 2018.

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