Preliminary real-world data showed that Chinese inactivated vaccines are 63% protective against the COVID-19 Delta variant, China’s top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said at the 24th Respiratory Disease Academic Conference of Guangdong Medical Association in Guangzhou.
Jiangsu Gdk Biotechnology Co. Ltd. will further develop its vaccine pipeline after it started trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Star Market on Aug. 2, where it raised ¥1.21 billion ($187 million) through an initial public offering of 22 million shares. The company plans to use the proceeds from the listing to establish a manufacturing plant to produce its quadrivalent influenza vaccine and invest in R&D for other vaccine candidates, as well as replenish working capital and repay bank loans.
China’s National Health Commission has just released a new set of regulations to evaluate the clinical value of both approved drugs and those still in trials as part of its efforts to improve the market standards.
Antengene Corp. Ltd. has gained the first greenlight in Asia for the oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor selinexor, in-licensed from Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., after South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety gave the thumbs up for its NDA.
Antengene Corp. Ltd. has gained the first greenlight in Asia for the oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor selinexor, in-licensed from Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., after South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety gave the thumbs up for its NDA. The drug has been approved in Korea to treat relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM) and relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in combination with dexamethasone.
China’s National Health Commission has just released a new set of regulations to evaluate the clinical value of both approved drugs and those still in trials as part of its efforts to improve the market standards.
Around 100,000 medical professionals have registered to learn breast cancer related information through Zhongchao Inc.’s Breast Cancer Tiered Diagnosis and Treatment Improvement Platform in the first half of 2021. It marks one of the earliest efforts conducted for the Healthy China 2030 Guidelines, which aims to increase the overall five-year cancer survival rate by 15% by 2030.
Sinocelltech Group Ltd. won market approval from China’s NMPA for SCT-800, a B-domain deleted recombinant human coagulation factor VIII, for the prophylactic treatment of severe hemophilia A in adolescent and adult patients. This marks the first homegrown drug for treating hemophilia A in China.
Cell and gene therapy have seen much progress in recent times, with the product pipelines in those areas bursting with more than 1,200 therapies. Naturally, the challenges, opportunities and essential development strategies in those fields were the focus on the last day of the BIO Asia-Taiwan Conference 2021.
The biotech industry in Asia is a promising market, but it still has a long way to go to narrow the gap between Asian and Western markets, according to speakers on day two of the BIO Asia-Taiwan Conference 2021.
