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Is China ready for first-in-class? Not quite, but we must go ahead with innovation, experts say

Nov. 19, 2019
By Elise Mak
SHANGHAI – As Chinese biotech companies talk more about innovation, one question is whether they are ready to move into first-in-class drugs from me-too and fast follow-up drugs. To biotech executives, the China first approval for Fibrogen Inc.'s roxadustat, a first-in-class small molecule for amenorrhea, is a wake-up call.
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