HONG KONG – South Korean pharmaceutical giant Yuhan Corp. has invested ₩3 billion (US$2.6 million) in SL Bigen Co. Ltd., a Korean biotech based in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, that is focused on chimeric antigen receptor-directed natural killer (CAR-NK) therapy.
HONG KONG – GI Innovation Inc., a microbiome combination drug developer based in Seoul, South Korea, has recently issued fully paid convertible preferred stock (CPS) worth KRW37.5 billion (US$31 million) for a series B investment.
Korea's largest pharmaceutical company, Yuhan Corp., and German giant Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (BI) have signed a collaboration and license agreement to develop a first-in-class dual agonist to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and related liver diseases, following a similar path trod by other companies.