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Investment, clear regulatory guidelines set up 'booming' biosimilars market in China

Oct. 10, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – U.S. regulators have given the green light to 12 biosimilars and the EU has cleared a whopping 53. China, however, has lagged behind, though industry experts are predicting the first biosimilar could clear regulatory hurdles this year.
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Investment, clear regulatory guidelines set up 'booming' biosimilars market in China

Oct. 10, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – U.S. regulators have given the green light to 12 biosimilars and the EU has cleared a whopping 53. China, however, has lagged behind, though industry experts are predicting the first biosimilar could clear regulatory hurdles this year.
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CBMG's Novartis agreement intensifies race to get first CAR T therapy nod in China

Oct. 9, 2018
By Elise Mak

HONG KONG – Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc. has inked a partnership with Novartis AG to bring Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) to market in China, putting it in a race with competing CAR T-cell therapy Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, Gilead Sciences Inc.), which is expected to soon start clinical trials in the country. 


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CBMG's Novartis agreement intensifies race to get first CAR T therapy nod in China

Oct. 4, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc. has inked a partnership with Novartis AG to bring Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) to market in China, putting it in a race with competing CAR T-cell therapy Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, Gilead Sciences Inc.), which is expected to soon start clinical trials in the country. (See BioWorld, Sept. 13, 2018.)
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Verastem taps CSPC as China partner for cancer drug Copiktra

Oct. 3, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – With the U.S. approval under its belt, Verastem Inc. is looking at China as the next big market for Copiktra (duvelisib), inking an exclusive licensing deal with CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd., of Shijiazhuang, China, in exchange for $15 million up front in deal for rights to develop and commercialize Copiktra for all oncology indications in China.
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Verastem taps CSPC as China partner for cancer drug Copiktra

Oct. 3, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – With the U.S. approval under its belt, Verastem Inc. is looking at China as the next big market for Copiktra (duvelisib), inking an exclusive licensing deal with CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd., of Shijiazhuang, China, in exchange for $15 million up front in deal for rights to develop and commercialize Copiktra for all oncology indications in China.
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CUHK researchers develop nanorobots that can navigate the human body

Sep. 28, 2018
By Elise Mak

South Korea moves to clarify R&D accounting for biopharma sector

Sep. 26, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – South Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been given new guidelines on how to treat research and development spending in their accounting, a move expected to remove uncertainties related to R&D's impacts on companies' return on assets and return on invested capital.
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South Korea moves to clarify R&D accounting for biopharma sector

Sep. 25, 2018
By Elise Mak
HONG KONG – South Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been given new guidelines on how to treat research and development spending in their accounting, a move expected to remove uncertainties related to R&D's impacts on companies' return on assets and return on invested capital.
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Streamlined process speeds Fosun Kite's CAR T drug to clinic

Sep. 19, 2018
By Elise Mak and Chermaine Lee
HONG KONG – Shanghai-based Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co. Ltd. was granted approval from China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to advance its gene therapy candidate, FKC-876, to clinical trials.
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