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Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Cancels Licensing Agreement with Mabworks Citing Market Changes
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China-based Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 600276) has announced its decision to cancel a licensing agreement with compatriot firm Mabworks, along with a related equity investment deal, due to changes in the market landscape. This move signifies that Hengrui Pharmaceuticals will no longer hold exclusive commercialization rights to Mabworks’…
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Roche’s Evrysdi Receives NMPA Approval for Wider SMA Patient Age Range
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche (SWX: ROG) has announced that its blockbuster nervous system drug Evrysdi (risdiplam) has received market approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients aged 16 days and above. This marks an expansion of the drug’s indication in China,…
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MicuRx Pharmaceuticals’ MRX-4/Contezolid Combo Receives Clinical Trial Approvals for Diabetic Foot Infection
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Sino-US firm MicuRx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (SHA: 688373) has announced receiving clinical trial approvals for its novel anti-microbial agent MRX-4, combined with contezolid (MRX-I), as a sequential treatment for diabetic foot infection in Israel, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, and Brazil. In-House Developed Oxazolidinone AntibioticsBoth MRX-4 and contezolid are in-house developed new-generation…
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AstraZeneca Enters Three-Year Collaboration with Cholesgen for Metabolic Disease Therapies
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UK-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca (AZ, NASDAQ: AZN) has signed a three-year collaboration agreement with China-based Cholesgen (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The partnership focuses on the research and development of new therapies for hypercholesterolemia and other metabolic diseases. The collaboration aims to validate genetic drug targets and advance therapeutic molecules into clinical…
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BeiGene to Showcase Brukinsa Data at ICML, Highlighting Efficacy in Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma
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China-based biopharmaceutical company BeiGene (NASDAQ: BGNE, HKG: 6160, SHA: 688235) has announced that it will present data on its Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi) Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) at the 17th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML). The data highlights the potential of Brukinsa in combination with obinutuzumab for the treatment of…
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Fosun Pharma Initiates Phase II Study of HLX26 and Serplulimab Combo for Metastatic CRC
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Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd (SHA: 600196, HKG: 2196) has announced the initiation of a Phase II clinical study in China for HLX26, an in-house developed lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG-3, aka CD233) inhibitor, in combination with its programmed-death 1 (PD-1) inhibitor HaiSiZhuang (serplulimab) for the treatment of metastatic…
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CStone’s Sugemalimab Shows Promising Survival Rates in Stage IV NSCLC Treatment
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China-based CStone Pharmaceuticals (HKG: 2616) has announced that the prestigious journal Nature Cancer has published the overall survival (OS) interim analysis from the registrational clinical study GEMSTONE-302. The study evaluates the programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor sugemalimab as a first-line treatment for stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). GEMSTONE-302…
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Takeda and HutchMed’s Elunate Study Results Published in The Lancet
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Takeda (TYO: 4502) and HutchMed (China) Ltd (HKG: 0013, NASDAQ: HCM) have announced that the results of the Phase III FRESCO-2 study for Elunate (fruquintinib) in previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) have been published in The Lancet journal. The global Phase III study, conducted across the US, Europe, Japan,…
