ABSTRACT
The marketing authorization application is a milestone of drug life cycle, which indicates a candidate has potential to become a commercial drug. As of now, there are only 12 domestic therapeutic antibodies approved in China. The chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) development and evaluation of monoclonal antibody were more challenging for both industry and authority agency. As the result of domestic biopharmaceutical industry development and implement of priority review system, the marketing authorization application of domestic antibody biosimilar and imported antibodies had dramatic increased in recent years. Thus, the CMC evaluation of monoclonal antibody become the important task of biological product's marketing authorization registration management. In the article, the CMC regulatory considerations for marketing authorization application based on author's review experience was proposed, in order to accelerate development and registration of commercial antibody in China.