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AstraZeneca (AZ; NASDAQ: AZN), a UK-based pharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received another indication approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its drug Tagrisso (osimertinib), an EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI). The drug is now approved for use in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for…
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Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd (HKG: 1177), a major player in China’s pharmaceutical industry, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its biosimilar version of Novo Nordisk’s Victoza (liraglutide), a treatment designed to control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes…
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CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd (HKG: 1093), a leading pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for SYS6020, a BCMA-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy. This marks a significant milestone for the company as SYS6020 is…
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Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO, CPH: NOVO-B), a leading healthcare company from Denmark, has announced that it has received marketing approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for semaglutide, indicated for long-term weight management. Globally, Novo Nordisk markets semaglutide under the trade name Wegovy for weight loss. The STEP series…
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Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (HKG: 2096), a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for CMAB009, a biosimilar of Merck KGaA/Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) cetuximab, which is marketed under the trade name Erbitux. The EGFR-targeted monoclonal antibody (mAb) was…
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Merck KGaA (NYSE: MRK), a leading German pharmaceutical company, has encountered a setback in the Phase III clinical trial for xevinapant, a drug licensed from Debiopharm in a deal valued at over USD 1 billion in 2021. The drug, which combines with chemoradiotherapy (CRT), was being investigated in the TrilynX…
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Johnson & Johnson (J&J; NYSE: JNJ), a leading U.S. healthcare company, has announced that it has received marketing approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its bispecific antibody (BsAb) Tecvayli (teclistamab) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/rMM) in patients who have received three or…
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Alebund Pharmaceuticals, based in Shanghai, has announced that its drug candidate AP306 (EOS789), a pan-inhibitor of phosphate transporter proteins NaPi-IIb, PiT-1, and PiT-2, has been granted breakthrough therapy designation (BTD) by the Center for Drug Evaluation. The drug is intended for the treatment of chronic kidney disease hyperphosphatemia. As the…
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Staidson (Beijing) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SHE: 300204), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received clinical clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its TNFR2-targeted monoclonal antibody (mAb), SBT-1901, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors. Preclinical studies have demonstrated…
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Hybio Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SHE: 300199), a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received temporary approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) filing for a biosimilar version of Novo Nordisk’s Victoza (liraglutide). This indicates that the drug has met…
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Asieris Pharmaceuticals (SHA: 688176), a Chinese specialist in urogenital cancer, has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its drug candidate APL-1202 for the treatment of free-living amoebae (FLA) infections. APL-1202, an oral MetAP2 inhibitor, is currently in a Phase III…
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Shanghai Haihe Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received marketing approval in Japan for its MET targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), glumetinib, for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a MET 14 exon mutation. The approval is…
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Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd (SHE: 002653) has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its Category 1 drug cofrogliptin (HSK7653), a long-acting dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor. The drug is now approved for use in improving blood sugar control in patients with…
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Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (SHA: 603087), a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has announced the presentation of results from a Phase Ib/IIa study for GZR18, a once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) 84th Scientific Sessions. The study evaluated GZR18’s efficacy in weight reduction for obese/overweight Chinese…
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The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted market approval for Awiqli (insulin icodec), a type 2 diabetes treatment developed by Denmark-based Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO). Awiqli, the first and only weekly insulin preparation globally, marks a significant milestone as it was developed concurrently in China, the European Union, and…
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Innovent Biologics Inc. (HKG: 1801), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced the presentation of key results from the first Phase III clinical trial of mazdutide in Chinese adults with overweight or obesity at the ADA Scientific Sessions 2024. The trial, known as GLORY-1 (NCT05607680), is a multi-center, randomized,…
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HutchMed (China) Ltd (NASDAQ: HCM; HKG: 0013) has announced that its partner Takeda (TYO: 4502, NYSE: TAK) has received marketing approval from the European Commission for fruquintinib, a treatment for adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) who have previously been treated with chemotherapy regimens based on fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and…
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ImmuneOnco Biopharmaceuticals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd (HKG: 1541) has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for IMC-002, a bispecific antibody (BsAb) targeting CD47 and CD20 for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). IMC-002 is designed to enhance antibody dependent cell phagocytosis…
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Sichuan Biokin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SHA: 688506), a pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to conduct a clinical study for its bispecific antibody drug conjugate (ADC), BL-M17D1, which is designed for the treatment of advanced solid tumors.…
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StarryGene, a biotech company specializing in gene therapy and based in Hefei, China, has announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase I clinical study for its gene therapy XMVA09 injection, which is designed to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD). XMVA09 is positioned as the world’s…