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Celling Biotechnology’s CEL001 Earns Tacit Approval for Clinical Trials in China
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Celling Biotechnology Co., Ltd, a Guangzhou-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced that its pipeline candidate CEL001 has received tacit clinical trial approval in China. The drug candidate is an antibody fusion protein targeting PD-1, TIGIT, and IL-15, and is intended for the treatment of advanced solid tumors, with a particular focus…
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Sino Biopharmaceutical’s Rovadicitinib Gets CDE Nod for Review in Myelofibrosis
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Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd (HKG: 1177) has announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) in China has accepted for review its market approval filing for the investigational Category 1 drug rovadicitinib (TQ05105). The drug is being developed for the treatment of moderate- to high-risk myelofibrosis (MF), a serious bone marrow…
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Sichuan Huiyu’s HY07121 Antifungal Protein Earns NMPA Review for Clinical Trials
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Sichuan Huiyu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (SHA: 688553), a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, has announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted its clinical trial filing for HY07121, an innovative antibody fusion protein targeting PD-1, TIGIT, and IL-15 for the treatment of advanced solid tumors. The drug candidate, classified as…
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Betta Pharmaceuticals’ EYP-1901 Implant Secures NMPA Clinical Trial Nod for Wet AMD
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Betta Pharmaceuticals (SHE: 300558) has announced that it has received clinical trial approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its EYP-1901 intravitreal implant, intended for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (wAMD). The drug candidate is a combination of vorolanib, a multi-target tyrosine kinase VEGFR/PDGFR inhibitor, and…
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Shenzhen Tyercan Bio-Pharma’s TYE1001 Earns Tacit IND Approval from FDA for Advanced Solid Tumors
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Shenzhen Tyercan Bio-pharm Co., Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received tacit Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its anti-tumor drug TYE1001. The drug is intended for the treatment of advanced solid tumors and lymphomas. TYE1001…
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Mabwell Bioscience Receives NMPA Approval for Phase II TNBC Clinical Trial of 9MW2821
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Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience Co., Ltd (SHA: 688062) has announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted approval for a Phase II clinical study of its antibody drug conjugate (ADC) 9MW2821, which targets Nectin-4, in patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). The study will evaluate the efficacy and…
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Ipsen S.A. Receives NMPA Green Light for Six-Month Diphereline Dosage in Central Precocious Puberty
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Ipsen S.A. (EPA: IPN; OTCMKTS: IPSEY) has announced that it has received marketing approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for its six-month dosage form of Diphereline (triptorelin), a treatment for central precocious puberty (CPP), a condition that leads to early sexual development in children. This makes Diphereline the…
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Shanghai HeartCare Medical Secures Taiwan Approval for Homegrown Femoral Artery Occluder
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Shanghai HeartCare Medical Technology Co., Ltd (HKG: 6609), a leading player in the Chinese medical device industry, has announced that it has received marketing approval from the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) for its innovative vascular closure device, the first home-grown femoral artery occluder. The device, which was approved…
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U.S. Senate Passes Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act to Limit Patent Thicketing
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In a significant move to curb drug prices, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 2023 (S-150) last week. This legislation is designed to foster greater competition from generic and biosimilar drugs against their brand-name counterparts. The act’s primary objective is to impose a limit…
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Eisai’s Next-Gen SERD, Orserdu, Begins Real-World Study in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital’s Hainan Subsidiary
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Shanghai Ruijin Hospital’s Hainan subsidiary has initiated a real-world study for Orserdu (elacestrant), a next-generation selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD) originally developed by Eisai (TYO: 4523). The drug was transferred to Radius Health for global development back in 2006. In a strategic move in July 2020, the Menarini Group, based…
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Everest Medicines’ Velsipity Shows Positive Results in Largest Asian Phase III UC Trial
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Everest Medicines (HKG: 1952), a leading biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced positive top-line results from a multi-center Phase III clinical study for its Velsipity (etrasimod) in moderate-to-severe active ulcerative colitis (UC) during the maintenance period in Asia. This landmark trial is the largest Phase III study for moderately-to-severely…
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Huadong Medicine’s Partner Arcutis Gets FDA Nod for Roflumilast Cream
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Huadong Medicine Co., Ltd (SHE: 000963), a Chinese pharmaceutical company, announced that its co-development partner Arcutis Biotherapeutics Inc., (NASDAQ: ARQT), has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a supplementary New Drug Application (sNDA) for Zoryve cream (roflumilast). This clearance is for treating mild to moderate…
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Mabwell Bioscience’s 9MW2821 Earns FDA Fast Track Designation for Triple Negative Breast Cancer
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Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience Co., Ltd (SHA: 688062), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received Fast Track Designation (FTD) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), 9MW2821. This candidate is designed to target Nectin-4 and is currently in development…
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NMPA Accepts 3SBio’s Filing for Anemia Treatment SSS06, Potential Game Changer for Dialysis Patients
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3SBio Inc. (HKG: 1530), a leading biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that the National Medical Products Administration has accepted its filing for market approval of SSS06, a recombinant erythropoiesis stimulating protein injection (rESP, CHO cells). This development marks a significant milestone for the company as it aims to…
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Huadong Medicine Secures Exclusive Rights to Oral Edaravone Candidate TTYP01 in Major Licensing Deal
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Huadong Medicine Co., Ltd (SHE: 000963), a prominent pharmaceutical company in China, has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Suzhou Auzone Biological Technology Co., Ltd, focusing on Auzone’s product candidate TTYP01, an oral formulation of edaravone. This strategic partnership positions Huadong to exclusively develop, regulate, manufacture, and commercialize the…
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Oricell Therapeutics’ GPRC5D-Targeted CAR-T Therapy Earns FDA Fast Track for Multiple Myeloma
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Oricell Therapeutics Co., Ltd, a leading biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that it has received fast-track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its innovative therapy, OriCAR-017. This chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is targeted at GPRC5D, aiming to treat recurrent refractory multiple myeloma…
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Simcere Pharmaceutical’s COVID-19 Therapy Xiannuoxin Earns Full Approval in China
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Simcere Pharmaceutical Group (HKG: 2096), a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced that its small-molecule COVID-19 therapy, Xiannuoxin (simnotrelvir, ritonavir), has received regular approval from the Chinese regulatory authorities, converting from its previous conditional approval status. This makes Xiannuoxin the first COVID-19 therapy of its kind to achieve full…
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Jiangsu Hengrui’s Subsidiary Conducts First Surgical Dosing in Parkinson’s Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
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Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 600276), a leading pharmaceutical company in China, has announced that its subsidiary, Shanghai Regenelead Therapies Co., Ltd., has conducted the first surgical dosing in a clinical study for its dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy, RGL-193, aimed at treating Parkinson’s disease (PD). The procedure…
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Shanghai Escugen Initiates Phase III Clinical Trial for Breast Cancer Drug Candidate ESG401
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Shanghai Escugen, a biopharmaceutical company based in China, has announced the dosing of the first patient in a Phase III clinical study for its candidate drug ESG401. The study is assessing the efficacy of ESG401 in patients with hormone receptor positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative (HR+/HER2-)…
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Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Therapy Leqembi Receives Marketing Approval in Hong Kong
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Eisai Co., Ltd, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, along with its co-development partner Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), has announced that they have received marketing approval in Hong Kong for their Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapy Leqembi (lecanemab). Known as 乐意保 in Chinese, the drug is administered intravenously every two weeks and is…
