SHANGHAI – Hutchison Medipharma Ltd., of Shanghai, one of China's biotech pioneers with a deep pipeline of small-molecule oncology and autoimmune candidates, has started dosing Chinese patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in a phase III trial of sulfatinib.
SHANGHAI – Hutchison Medipharma Ltd., of Shanghai, one of China's biotech pioneers with a deep pipeline of small-molecule oncology and autoimmune candidates, has started dosing Chinese patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in a phase III trial of sulfatinib.
SHANGHAI – Astrazeneca plc, of London, is betting that a "made-in-China" label will shave years off the usual CFDA review and approval timelines that imported drugs face and will get its pipeline of therapeutics to Chinese patients much faster.
SHANGHAI – Astrazeneca plc, of London, is betting that a "made-in-China" label will shave years off the usual CFDA review and approval timelines that imported drugs face and will get its pipeline of therapeutics to Chinese patients much faster.
SHANGHAI – In China, it is often said there is more venture capital (VC) money sloshing around than there are good assets, or companies in which to invest. That poses an interesting conundrum for VCs: They see the sizable money-making potential in China – given the increasing market demands of a rapidly aging population with significant unmet medical needs – but face a lack of readymade investment vehicles to fund.
SHANGHAI – In China, it is often said there is more venture capital (VC) money sloshing around than there are good assets, or companies in which to invest. That poses an interesting conundrum for VCs: They see the sizable money-making potential in China – given the increasing market demands of a rapidly aging population with significant unmet medical needs – but face a lack of readymade investment vehicles to fund.
SHANGHAI – Wuxi Pharmatech (Cayman) Inc., a new breed of contract R&D organization, has completed the privatization process, requesting its stocks to stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 10. Wuxi's chairman and chief executive, Ge Li, along with a consortium of private-equity investors paid $3.3 billion in cash to complete the deal. Wuxi first listed in the U.S. in 2007.
SHANGHAI – Beijing-based Beigene Co. Ltd. has shared positive phase I results for BGB-3111, a targeted small-molecule BTK inhibitor to treat B-cell malignancies that Beigene execs believe has the potential to become best in class, beating out ibrutinib (Imbruvica, Pharmacyclics Inc./Johnson & Johnson), the only BTK inhibitor currently on the market in the U.S. and Europe.
SHANGHAI – Beijing-based Beigene Co. Ltd. has shared positive phase I results for BGB-3111, a targeted small-molecule BTK inhibitor to treat B-cell malignancies that Beigene execs believe has the potential to become best in class, beating out ibrutinib (Imbruvica, Pharmacyclics Inc./Johnson & Johnson), the only BTK inhibitor currently on the market in the U.S. and Europe.
