Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.
Following the approval of Toripalimab by the Food and Drug Administration, two more Chinese-made cancer drugs have received approval for distribution in the US.
How do they choose the names of these drugs? Do they just keep stringing together consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel until they hit some sort of limit?
Yes, but they don’t pick them randomly. Those are usually sillables from the chemical or biological description.
Classical Example: para-Acetylaminophenol… the common generic names are paracetamol or acetaminophen, the most common brand name in the US is Tylenol. All are derived from picking some parts of the descriptor.
Some of it may just be random. But there’s some logic to parts of it. I. This case the suffix -mab indicates that this drug is a monoclonal antibody.