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Johnson & Johnson’s Opsumit Faces Generic Competition with Qilu Pharmaceutical’s Entry
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Johnson & Johnson (J&J, NYSE: JNJ)’s pulmonary hypertension treatment, Opsumit (macitentan), is set to encounter intensified competition in China following the approval of a generic version by local pharmaceutical company Qilu Pharmaceutical last month. Macitentan, classified as an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA), initially received marketing approval in the US in…
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Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals Receives NMPA Approval for BC008-1A Biologic Product Clinical Trial
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Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 603858), a pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to initiate a clinical study for its Category 1 biologic product BC008-1A. This product is intended for the treatment of glioblastoma and advanced…
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HOB Biotech Receives NMPA Approval for Clinical Trials of MM09 Sublingual Spray
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Jiangsu-based HOB Biotech Group Corp., Ltd (SHA: 688656) has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its MM09 sublingual spray. The product is intended to target indications such as mild to moderate asthma and allergic rhinitis/nasal conjunctivitis, with a focus on…
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Roche’s Susvimo Implant Cleared for Relaunch in US After Voluntary Recall
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Roche (SWX: RO), the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has announced the conclusion of the voluntary recall of its Susvimo (ranibizumab) 100mg/mL intravitreal ocular implant in the U.S. market. The implant, indicated for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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Ascentage Pharma’s Olverembatinib Receives Marketing Approval from Macau SAR for CML Treatment
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Ascentage Pharma (HKG: 6855), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China for its drug olverembatinib. This novel BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid…
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Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Gets NMPA Green Light for FH-2001 and Serplulimab Combo Clinical Trial
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Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd (SHA: 600196; HKG: 2196), a prominent pharmaceutical company in China, has announced that it has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to conduct a clinical study for its co-developed FH-2001 in combination with HanSiZhuang (serplulimab, HLX10) for the treatment of advanced…
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CSPC Pharmaceutical’s SYS6023 Receives FDA Approval for Clinical Study in Advanced Solid Tumors
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CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd (HKG: 1093), a leading pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a clinical study for its pipeline candidate SYS6023. The study will initially focus on patients with general advanced solid tumors.…
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Allist Pharmaceuticals Receives NMPA Approval for Phase III Trial of Furmonertinib in EGFR Mutated NSCLC
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Allist Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd, a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to proceed with a Phase III clinical study. The study will assess the efficacy and safety of Allist’s furmonertinib in combination with chemotherapy compared to osimertinib (Tagrisso) in…
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Yantai Dongcheng Pharmaceutical Gets NMPA Approval for ⁹⁹ᵐTc Tetrofosmin Imaging Agent
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Yantai Dongcheng Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd (SHE: 002675), a pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its ⁹⁹ᵐTc tetrofosmin, a SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging agent. This radiopharmaceutical drug, which is utilized for myocardial perfusion imaging in…
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Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals’ Fotagliptin Receives NMPA Approval for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment
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Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHE: 002294), a pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its Category 1 drug, fotagliptin. This drug is intended to improve blood sugar control in adult patients with type 2 diabetes,…
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Roche’s Alecensa Secures NMPA Approval as Adjuvant Therapy for Early-Stage NSCLC
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Roche (SWX: RO), the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has announced that it has received an additional indication approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its drug Alecensa (alectinib). This new indication is for use as a post-surgery adjuvant therapy in patients with stage 1B to stage IIIA non-small cell…
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Immorna Earns FDA Approval for Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Self-Replicating RNA Cancer Therapy
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Immorna (Hangzhou) Biotechnology, a biotech company specializing in mRNA-based vaccines and located in Hangzhou, has announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a Phase I/II clinical study for its self-replicating RNA cancer therapy, JCXH-211-IV (intravenous injection). JCXH-211-IV is a potential first-in-class…
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Novo Nordisk’s Esperoct Receives NMPA Approval, First Long-Acting Factor VIII for Hemophilia A in China
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The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted approval to Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO), a Denmark-based pharmaceutical giant, for its drug Esperoct (turoctocog alfa pegol). This marks Esperoct as the first and only long-acting recombinant coagulation factor VIII approved in China for on-demand treatment and control of bleeding events, as…
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Innovent Biologics and IASO Biotherapeutics Amend Partnership, Focusing on CAR-T Therapy Fucaso
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Innovent Biologics, Inc. (HKG: 1801), a leading biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced a new set of agreements with IASO Biotechnology, a domestic firm, to adjust the terms of their earlier partnership. According to the new deals, IASO will acquire from Innovent its rights to the BCMA-targeted chimeric antigen…
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PharmaEssentia’s Besremi Receives Approval for Polycythemia Vera Treatment in China
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PharmaEssentia Corporation (TPE: 6446, FRA: 8Z1), a biopharmaceutical company based in Taiwan, has announced that its drug Besremi (ropeginterferon alfa-2b) has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to treat adult polycythemia vera (PV) in China. This ultra-long-acting interferon, developed in-house, is already registered in the European Union,…
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Haisco Pharmaceutical’s Crisugabalin Gains NMPA Approval for Post-Herpes Neuralgia Treatment
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Haisco Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd (SHE: 002653), a leading pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved an additional market approval filing for its drug candidate crisugabalin (HSK16149). This latest approval expands the drug’s indication to include the treatment of post-herpetic neuralgia…
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Hinova Pharmaceuticals’ HP537 Receives FDA Approval for Phase I/II Clinical Trial in Hematologic Malignancies
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Hinova Pharmaceuticals Inc. (SHA: 688302), a biotech company based in Chengdu, has announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a Phase I/II clinical study for its drug candidate HP537 in the treatment of hematologic malignancies. The Category 1 chemical had previously…
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Easton Pharmaceutical Receives NMPA Approval for Generic Oxcarbazepine
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Easton Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SHA: 688513), based in Chengdu, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its generic version of Novartis’s oxcarbazepine. This neurogenic drug is now approved for the treatment of primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures and partial seizures, with or…
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Amoytop Biotech’s Peginterferon α-2b Receives NMPA Approval for Primary Thrombocytosis Clinical Trial
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Amoytop Biotech Co. Ltd (SHA: 688278), based in Xiamen, has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its Category 1 biologic, peginterferon α-2b, which is indicated for the treatment of primary thrombocytosis. As the first domestically developed long-acting peginterferon α-2b for…
