Several sessions at the 2016 RAPS Regulatory Convergence, held in San Jose, California in September, focused on medical device regulations and regulatory changes worldwide. These included: FDA's establishment of a national evaluation system for medical devices, China's agreement to give imported medical devices the same treatment as those manufactured or developed domestically, Japan's reduced review time for medical devices over six years, Asia/Pacific's expected medica...

This article was developed from presentations at the 2016 RAPS Regulatory Convergence meeting held in San Jose. The session titled "Biosimilars," was led by Arpita Shah, PharmD, senior manager, regulatory intelligence and policy, Celgene Corporation. Speakers included  Leah Christl, associate director, therapeutic biologics, FDA, CDER, Sabine Haubenreisser, MSc, PhD, EMA liaison official at the FDA and Tara Sanderson, associate director, project manager, CMC regulatory a...