From local drug discovery to global innovation, economic uncertainty is taking a toll on China’s innovative biotech system, forcing local companies to weather unpredictable storms, investors said during the Chinabio Partnering Forum in Shanghai in September.
Ausperbio Therapeutics Inc. raised $110 million from two financing rounds in 2024 to advance its lead antisense oligonucleotide candidate as a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B.
Certa Therapeutics Pty Ltd. has acquired Occurx Pty Ltd. in a move to strengthen its pipeline to target multiple fibrotic diseases as both companies share a focus on targeting GPR68, a defined G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) receptor that mediates signaling pathways associated with inflammation and fibrosis and is thought to be a master switch of fibrosis.
Zhongzhi Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. made a $3 million investment in a series A financing round of stem cell therapy developer Gabaeron Inc. Dec. 21, expected to help propel Gabaeron’s preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) candidate into phase I testing.
At Bio Japan 2024, policymakers and industry leaders pledged to make Japan a land of drug discovery to attract native and foreign drug developers. Like many Asian countries, Japan is harnessing and prioritizing the bio sector to drive economic growth, throwing its weight behind its 10-year Bioeconomy initiative to create bioclusters and increase investment.
Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd.’s trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (Trop2)-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), datopotamab deruxtecan (dato-dxd), has been approved in Japan for treating adults with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative unresectable or recurrent breast cancer after prior chemotherapy.
Regulatory snapshots, including drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations in Asia-Pacific: Astrazeneca, Keymed Biosciences.
Biopharma happenings in Asia-Pacific including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bionomics, Bio-Thera, Corxel, Exicure, GPCR Therapeutics, Neuphoria, Rapt, Shanghai Jemincare Pharmaceutical, Tabuk, Vincentage, Wuxi Apptec.
Biopharma happenings in Asia-Pacific including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bionomics, Bio-Thera, Corxel, Exicure, GPCR Therapeutics, Neuphoria, Rapt, Shanghai Jemincare Pharmaceutical, Tabuk, Vincentage, Wuxi Apptec.
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