Aussie radiopharma company Advancell Co. Ltd. closed an oversubscribed $112 million series C round that will accelerate clinical development of its pipeline of radionuclide therapies and allow it to expand its manufacturing capacity. Read More
Japan’s drug pricing scheme has gotten more complicated, and pharma companies should brace themselves for annual price cuts. Industry has been pushing back against the annual price reductions to no avail, Ray Fujii, managing director of LEK’s San Francisco office told BioWorld. Although 2025 is a mid-year revision in Japan, and not a formal price revision year, the system for considering drug prices has gotten more confusing with a new formula for determining price cuts. Read More
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved CSL Ltd.’s Andembry (garadacimab) for preventing recurrent hereditary angioedema attacks, marking the first global approval for the drug that was discovered and developed in Australia by CSL scientists. Read More
A year after its $175 million IPO in 2024, Arrivent Biopharma Inc. picked up rights to develop and commercialize Lepu Biopharma Co. Ltd.’s antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) candidate, MRG-007, worldwide excluding the greater China region. Read More
Inflammatory diseases specialist AB2 Bio Ltd. has signed a potential $686 million U.S. commercialization deal for its interleukin-18 neutralizing drug tadekinig. The agreement with Japanese pharma company Nippon Shinyaku Co. Ltd. includes an initial payment of $6 million, with a further $30 million due later this year. Read More
Ascentage Pharma Group Corp. Ltd. has priced the first IPO of the year in the U.S. The offering of 7.32 million shares has the Suzhou, China, and Rockville, Md.-based company looking for gross proceeds of about $126.4 million, assuming a price of $17.25 per share. Read More
Alterity Therapeutics Ltd. reported positive top-line phase II results for lead candidate ATH-434 for treating multiple system atrophy, a rare neurological disorder similar to Parkinson's disease. Read More
Vaxxas Pty. Ltd. and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations are progressing heat-stable, dried-formulation mRNA vaccines using Vaxxas’ needle-free high-density microarray patch. Read More
To realize the promise of cell therapy for neurodegenerative disorders, S.Biomedics Co. Ltd. is looking to expand clinical trials of TED-A9, its stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease (PD), to the U.S., having reaped positive results from a domestic phase I/IIa trial in November 2024. Read More
George Medicines, a new spinout from Australia’s George Institute for Global Health, could offer patients better control of their blood pressure as well as fewer side effects thanks to an ultra-low-dose triple combination. Read More
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said it released the world’s first guideline on reviewing and approving generative artificial intelligence-based medical devices Jan. 24, to help establish standards on the technology’s applications in the medical field. Read More
The Chinese government blacklisted several American companies, including gene sequencing-focused biotechnology firm Illumina Inc. and fashion brand PVH Corp., citing threats to China’s “national sovereignty, security and development interests.” Read More
Clinical updates from Asia, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Adagene, Alerity, Ascletis, Merck, Recce, Taiho. Read More
Biopharma happenings in Asia-Pacific including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: A*STAR; Catalyst, Dydo, Exicure, Fermion, GPCR Handa, Junshi, Keros, Leo Pharma, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Nanocopoeia, Neurocrine Biosciences, Poxel, RLS Radiopharmacies, Simcere, Sumitomo, Takeda, Telix, Topalliance Biosciences. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations in Asia-Pacific: Apellis, Akeso, Astrazeneca, Biogen, Clearside, CSL Behring, GSK, Iaso, Impact, Innovent, Junshi, Kalvista, Telix, Vyluma, Zai Lab. Read More
