HONG KONG – A deal inked between Carlsbad, Calif.-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Kunshan, China-based Suzhou Ribo Life Science Co. Ltd. will ease the U.S. company's entry into the Chinese innovative drug market, while Ribo picks up a license for two antisense drugs – and an option for a third – aimed at treating metabolic diseases and cancer.

HONG KONG – Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd.'s biosimilar Renflexis (infliximab-abda) will be the first product of the conglomerate's biologics arm to be marketed in the U.S. and only the second infliximab biosimilar in the market after Pfizer Inc.'s Inflectra. Samsung Bioepis gained FDA approval late Friday for its BLA for Renflexis (formerly SB2), a biosimilar candidate referencing Remicade (infliximab, Janssen Biotech Inc.).

HONG KONG – In a country where just seven new oncology drugs were introduced in the last five years, the recent approval of Apac Biotech Pvt. Ltd.'s first-of-its-kind autoimmune therapy marked a significant step forward.

HONG KONG – In a country where just seven new oncology drugs were introduced in the last five years, the recent approval of Apac Biotech Pvt. Ltd.'s first-of-its-kind autoimmune therapy marked a significant step forward.

HONG KONG – A deal between South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Alteogen Inc. and Chinese company Qilu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. to complete development of a biosimilar drug suggests the technology gap between the two countries is closing, and underlines the fact that recent political tensions between the two countries have had little impact on the biotech industry.

HONG KONG – A deal between South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Alteogen Inc. and Chinese company Qilu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. to complete development of a biosimilar drug suggests the technology gap between the two countries is closing, and underlines the fact that recent political tensions between the two countries have had little impact on the biotech industry.