Hanx Biopharmaceuticals (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. raised HK$586 million (US$75.37 million) in its IPO on the Hong Kong Securities Exchange (HKEX:3378) on Dec. 23 to advance its clinical stage immuno-oncology pipeline.
Insilico Medicine Inc. plans to raise HK$2.27 billion (US$292 million) in its IPO on the Hong Kong Securities Exchange to advance its clinical pipeline and invest further in generative AI and automated laboratories.
Rznomics Inc. continued South Korea’s year-end biotech rally with a ₩46.35 billion (US$31.35 million) IPO Dec. 18. Proceeds will fund Seongnam-si, South Korea-based Rznomic’s pipeline of gene therapies, built on the company’s trans-splicing ribozyme RNA Replacement Enzyme technology platform.
Addition Therapeutics came out of stealth mode to highlight its Precise RNA-Mediated Insertion of Transgenes (PRINT) gene therapy platform. The system is based on research of retrotransposons by Kathleen Collins’ laboratory at University of California, Berkeley, that was spun out into Addition in 2021.