By Rishika Sadam

(Reuters) -India’s Biocon expects a 50% drop in costs for developing complex biosimilars as the United States has proposed to ease clinical testing for the drugs that make up more than 60% of its revenue, a top executive said on Wednesday.

Biosimilars are copies of costlier biological drugs used to treat major illnesses such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and diabetes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month proposed to simplify drug testing by lowering the requirement for large comparative clinical efficacy trials.

Biocon, which aims to cumulatively launch 20 biosimilars by 2030, is focusing on upcoming launches in the key markets of U.S. and Europe, Shreehas Tambe, CEO of Biocon Biologics, a unit of Biocon, said in an interview.

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