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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…
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Daiichi Sanky’s Mirogabalin Gets Green Light from China for Diabetic Neuropathic Pain
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Daiichi Sanky (TYO: 4568), a pharmaceutical company based in Japan, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its drug Tarlige (mirogabalin) for the treatment of diabetes peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP). Mirogabalin is a gabapentinoid drug, which belongs to the same class…
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Antengene’s Xpovio Secures NMPA Approval for R/R Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
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Antengene Corp., Ltd (HKG: 6996), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received new indication approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its drug Xpovio (selinexor). The drug is now approved for the treatment of adult patients with recurrent or refractory (R/R) diffuse large…
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Sirnaomics’ STP122G Achieves Phase I Milestone with Positive Interim Data for Anticoagulation Treatment
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Sirnaomics Ltd (HKG: 2257) has announced the completion of the Phase I second sequence for its drug candidate STP122G, which is being developed as an anticoagulation treatment, along with the release of interim data. The Factor XI program, to which STP122G belongs, has broad therapeutic potential as an anticoagulant across…
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Roche’s Tiragolumab Misses Primary Endpoints in NSCLC Trial, Study Halted
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Roche (SWX: ROG; SWX: RO; OTCMKTS: RHHBY), the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, has announced that a Phase II/III clinical trial for its TIGIT-targeted antibody tiragolumab, designed for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), did not outperform Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a PD-1 inhibitor. The trial, known as SKYSCRAPER-06, was evaluating the efficacy of tiragolumab…
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Medigene AG Secures Chinese Patent for TCR-T Therapy Targeting NY-ESO-1 and LAGE 1a
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Medigene AG (ETR: MDG1), a biopharmaceutical company based in Germany, has announced that it has been granted patent protection in China for its T cell receptor (TCR) technology targeting NY-ESO-1 and LAGE 1a. This development pertains to the company’s lead pipeline candidate, MDG1015, which is a first-in-class, third-generation TCR-T therapy.…
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Doma Biopharmaceutical’s Bispecific ADC DM001 Receives FDA Clearance for Clinical Trial
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Doma Biopharmaceutical (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its bispecific antibody drug conjugate (ADC), DM001. The molecule is set to be evaluated for safety, tolerability, and preliminary anti-tumor activity…
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Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Gets NMPA Green Light for HRS-9813 IPF Clinical Trial
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Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 600276), a leading pharmaceutical company in China, has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its Category 1 drug HRS-9813, which is intended for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Preclinical efficacy data from…
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Luye Pharma’s Oxycodone/Naloxone Product Receives NMPA Approval for Severe Pain Management
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Luye Pharma Group (HKG: 2186), a pharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its oxycodone, naloxone product, LY 021702. The drug is indicated for use in adults requiring opioid analgesics to manage severe pain, including both…
