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Golimumab

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Golimumab (Simponi; Centocor Ortho Biotech), a fully human antibody that is specific for tumour necrosis factor, was approved by the US FDA for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis in April 2009.

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  1. Dimitrios A. Pappas and Joan M. Bathon are at the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, MFL-CT, Suite 4100, 5200 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA.,

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  2. Uma Yasothan and Delphine Hanicq are at IMS Health, 7 Harewood Avenue, London, NW1 6JB, UK.,

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  3. Peter Kirkpatrick is at Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. jbathon1@jhmi.edu; UYasothan@de.imshealth.com; p.kirkpatrick@nature.com,

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J.M.B. has research contracts with Biogen Idec, Merck Serono and Pfizer, and holds consulting positions at Roche, Crescendo Biosciences and Centocor.

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Pappas, D., Bathon, J., Hanicq, D. et al. Golimumab. Nat Rev Drug Discov 8, 695–696 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd2982

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