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  Market Scenario Erythropoietin is also known as hematopoietin. Erythropoietin is a hormone responsible for formation of red blood cells, it is secreted by kidneys and it promotes formation of red blood cells from bone marrow. This process is known as erythropoiesis. Erythropoietin has many applications such as treatment of anemia, treatment of chronic kidney diseases, AIDS and it also has applications in oncology. Synthetic forms of erythropoietin like epoetin alfa, epoetin beta, darbepoetin alfa, epoetin omega and epoetin delta have developed due to the development in the recombinant DNA technology. Epoetin alfa and darbepoetin alfa are the most popular erythropoietin drugs. They form 80% of the total Erythropoietin Drug Market . Amgen Inc. was the first company to invent epoetin alfa and darbepoetin alfa. The company patented these drugs as epogen and aranesp, respectively. Amgen’s patent for epogen has expired. This has led a lot of companies manufacturing biosimilars to v...