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BEIJING—The Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) in China has accepted the market filing for a long-acting erythropoietin (EPO) product, rhEPO-Fc, developed by Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 603858), for review. The product is intended for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Anemia is a common…
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Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (SHA: 603858), based in China, has announced plans to enter a licensing agreement with Russia’s Lancet Pharmaceuticals, granting the latter regulatory filing, commercialization, and other rights for Buchang’s pipeline candidate BC001 across the Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.…
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Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd (SHA: 603858), a Chinese pharmaceutical company, has announced that it has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to initiate a Phase I study for its investigational biologic product BC001. The study will assess the safety, tolerability, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics of BC001, a…
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AstraZeneca (AZ; NASDAQ: AZN), a UK-based pharmaceutical company, is set to initiate a Phase III study for its PD-1xTIGIT bispecific antibody (BsAb) rilvegostomig in combination with chemotherapy for patients with biliary tract cancer (BTC) following surgical resection. The double-blind, placebo-controlled, global trial aims to assess the efficacy and tolerability of…