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Hinova Pharmaceuticals’ HP515 Receives NMPA Approval for NASH Clinical Study
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Hinova Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotech firm headquartered in Chengdu and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 688302), has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to initiate a clinical study for its Category 1 chemical drug candidate, HP515. The molecule is intended for the treatment of nonalcoholic…
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Bio-Thera Solutions’ BAT8006 Receives NMPA Approval for Clinical Trial in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer Maintenance Therapy
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Bio-Thera Solutions, a biopharmaceutical company based in Guangzhou and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 688177), has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to advance its antibody drug conjugate (ADC) BAT8006 into clinical trials in combination with bevacizumab. This trial will focus on maintenance therapy for…
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Chongqing Genrix Biopharmaceutical Receives NMPA Approval for Xeligekimab, First Domestic Anti-IL-17 Antibody
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Chongqing Genrix Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, has received marketing approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its self-developed Category 1 biologic product, xeligekimab. This marks the first domestically developed anti-IL-17 antibody in China approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The introduction of xeligekimab…
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Regeneron Secures EU Approval for Ordspono, Its First Bispecific Antibody
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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) has secured its first global market approval for Ordspono (odronextamab) from the European Commission (EC). This marks a significant milestone as Ordspono becomes the company’s first bispecific antibody (BsAb) to receive approval, designated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) follicular…
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Shanghai Fudan-Zhangjiang Enrolls First Patient in Phase III Trial for TROP2 ADC FDA018 in TNBC
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Shanghai Fudan-Zhangjiang Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a China-based pharmaceutical company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKG: 1349) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 688505), has announced the enrollment of the first patient in a Phase III clinical study for its drug candidate FDA018. This TROP2 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) is…
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China’s Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical Advances BC011 with NMPA Approval for Phase I Clinical Trial
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Guilin Sanjin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SHE: 002275), has announced that its subsidiary, Dragon Boat Pharmaceutical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, has obtained approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to initiate a Phase I clinical study for its drug candidate BC011,…
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Changchun High & New Technology Industries Receives FDA Approval for GenSci098 Clinical Trial in Thyroid Eye Disease
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Changchun High & New Technology Industries (Group) Inc., a Chinese corporation listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SHE: 000661), has received tacit approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a clinical study for its Category 1 biologic product, GenSci098. This humanized anti-TSHR antagonistic monoclonal antibody (mAb)…
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Diversifying HPV Protection: Beijing Wantai’s Vaccine Filing Competes with Gardasil 9 in China
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Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise Co., Ltd, a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 603392), has announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted for review the market approval filing for its innovative recombinant human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. This nine-valent vaccine, which targets HPV…
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BeiGene Advances R/R CLL/SLL Treatment with FDA Fast-Tracked BGB-16673 in Phase I/II Clinical Trial
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BeiGene (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKG: 6160; SHA: 688235), a leading biopharmaceutical company, has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its novel compound BGB-16673. This investigational Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) targeting chimeric degradation activation compound (CDAC), known as a proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) product, represents…
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China’s CDE Approves Multitude Therapeutics’ AMT-676 for Clinical Study in Solid Tumors
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The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China has granted clinical study approval for Multitude Therapeutics Inc.’s proprietary injectable drug candidate, AMT-676, as indicated on the CDE website. The drug is intended for the treatment of solid tumors. AMT-676 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) that targets CDH17, a gene situated…
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Mabwell Bioscience Initiates Phase III Trial for 9MW2821 Combo in Urothelial Carcinoma Following NMPA Clearance
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Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience Co., Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company listed in China (SHA: 688062), has announced the commencement of patient enrollment for a pivotal Phase III clinical trial. The study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of 9MW2821 in combination with toripalimab for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced…
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US FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Ahead of Winter
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to two updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in anticipation of the winter season. Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have both received authorization for their vaccines, which are designed to address the KP.2 variant of the virus, a subset of the omicron strain. The…
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Shouyao Holdings Receives Clinical Trial Approval for SY-7166 in Treating Multiple Myeloma
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Shouyao Holdings (Beijing) Co., Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Beijing and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHA: 688197), has announced that it has obtained clinical trial approval for its drug candidate SY-7166 for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) as a monotherapy. SY-7166 is a highly potent and…
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Takeda Prepares to File Dengue Fever Vaccine for US Approval, Expanding Global Regulatory Reach
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Takeda Pharmaceutical, a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company listed on the NYSE (NYSE: TAK), is reportedly preparing to submit its dengue fever vaccine for regulatory approval in the United States, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. At this juncture, specifics regarding the timing of the filing or the anticipated decision date…
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Henlius Biotech’s Biosimilar Herceptin Approved by Health Canada for Breast and Gastric Cancer Treatments
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Shanghai Henlius Biotech Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company based in China and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKG: 2696), has announced that its UK partner, Accord Healthcare Inc., has received marketing approval from Health Canada. This approval permits the use of Hanquyou (trastuzumab; HLX02), a biosimilar to Roche’s…
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Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Gets NMPA Green Light for SIM0508 Clinical Trial in Advanced Solid Tumors
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Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed in Hong Kong (HKG: 2096), has announced that it has obtained clinical trial approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its pipeline candidate SIM0508. This molecule is a DNA polymerase theta (Pol theta) small molecule inhibitor, which is…
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Mabwell Bioscience Receives Approval for Phase III Trial of 9MW2821 in Cervical Cancer from China’s CDE
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Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience Co., Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company listed in China (SHA: 688062), has received approval from the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) in China to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial for its pipeline candidate, 9MW2821. The study is designed as a randomized, open, controlled, multi-center trial, comparing…
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Gene Cradle Initiates First Regulatory Gene Therapy Study in China for Late-Onset Pompe Disease
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Gene Cradle, a Beijing-based gene therapy specialist, has achieved a milestone by administering its GC301 to the first patient with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) in a regulatory study in China. This marks the nation’s first patient dosing of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy for LOPD. GC301 is an innovative…
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Phase I Success for Shandong Xinhua’s OAB-14, Advancing to Phase IIa in Alzheimer’s Therapy
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Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed in Shenzhen (SHE: 000756), has declared the successful completion of a Phase I clinical trial for its OAB-14 drug candidate in a dry suspension formulation. Following the positive outcome, the company is now gearing up to initiate a Phase IIa…
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Hunan Warrant Pharmaceutical’s ZG-002 Receives NMPA Approval for Clinical Trials in Plaque Psoriasis
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Hunan Warrant Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a pharmaceutical company based in China and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Science and Technology Innovation Board (SHA: 688799), has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its Category 1 drug candidate, ZG-002. This new molecule is intended for…
