No, Copaxone isn’t a biologic. Biologics are drugs that are made from living cells. Copaxone is made from chemicals.
Some of the disease-modifying therapies used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) are biologics, but Copaxone isn’t one of them. Examples of biologics used to treat MS include alemtuzumab (Lemtrada), natalizumab (Tysabri), and ocrelizumab (Ocrevus).
For information on how Copaxone works to treat MS, see the “How Copaxone works” section below.