The Asia Pacific med-tech industry is expected to grow to $225 billion by 2030. Despite that rosy outlook, the landscape become increasingly challenging as med-tech investment saw a notable downturn since its peak in 2021, with venture financing and M&A deals decreasing by 22% and 37%, respectively, over the past two years.
Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. has synthesized antibody-drug conjugates comprising a monoclonal antibody covalently linked to exatecan derivatives through a linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Haihe Biopharma Co. Ltd. has disclosed benzo(hetero)cycloalkyl compounds reported to be useful for the treatment of acne, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, and more.
Hervolution Therapeutics ApS (formerly Inprother Aps) has announced a $11.7 million series A financing to support its work developing novel human endogenous retrovirus (HERV)-targeted immunotherapies to address diseases of aging.
Engineered probiotics, mainly bacterial probiotics, are an emerging platform for in situ delivery of therapeutics, including anticancer therapies, to the gut. Writing in Cell Chemical Biology, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine and collaborators present a novel yeast-based therapeutic oral platform to deliver next-generation immune checkpoint inhibitor proteins directly to gastrointestinal tumors.
China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved Innovent Biologics Inc.’s NDA for Dovbleron (taletrectinib), a next-generation ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), for treating adults with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have been previously treated with ROS1 TKIs.
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