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Brand-name prescription medicine

Afinitor

Generic name: Everolimus

FDA application holder: Novartis

Strengths and generic versions Official label

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

This page is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you start, stop or switch any medicine, including a switch between a brand and a generic.

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At a glance

4Strengths and forms
32Same medicine, other names
2009FDA approval
0Recalls (FDA reports)

Quick answers

What is Afinitor?
Afinitor is a brand name of Everolimus, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 4 Afinitor products in 4 strengths and forms.
Who makes Afinitor?
Novartis holds the FDA application for Afinitor (NDA022334, approved March 30, 2009).
Is there a generic or store brand of Afinitor?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 32 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Afinitor product, 32 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Afinitor been recalled?
No recall linked to Afinitor products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Afinitor is

Each Afinitor product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Everolimus · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
everolimus 10 mg
tablet (oral)		 Afinitor 8 products, 8 companies DailyMed
everolimus 2.5 mg
tablet (oral)		 Afinitor 8 products, 8 companies DailyMed
everolimus 5 mg
tablet (oral)		 Afinitor 8 products, 8 companies DailyMed
everolimus 7.5 mg
tablet (oral)		 Afinitor 8 products, 8 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Everolimus →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Afinitor products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA022334NovartisMarch 30, 20094

Companies that list Afinitor

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Afinitor products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Afinitor products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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