A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to conduct a formal investigation and place sanctions against biotech firm WuXi AppTec, citing its connections to the Chinese military.
CASI Pharmaceuticals and Juventas Cell Therapy recently received approval from China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for Yuanruida, a domestic CD19-targeting CAR-T therapy for relapsed/refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia.
A new treatment for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) from Shanghai-based Henlius Biotech has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).
Huadong has been granted exclusive rights in Greater China to develop and commercialize MC2’s drug, Wynzora Cream, for the treatment of plaque psoriasis.
Everest Medicines held a ceremony today to celebrate the start of operations at its new global manufacturing site in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province, in China: with the facility boasting the capacity to produce 700 million doses of mRNA vaccines annually.
RoosterBio has entered into an exclusive distributor partnership with MBL Beijing Biotech: with RoosterBio’s expansion media, exosome collection media, bioreactor media and genetic engineering media to be sold and distributed by MBL Beijing and thus becoming...
Xbiome Inc, a China headquartered AI-based microbiome therapeutics startup, has acquired the clinical-stage M201 program developed by Assembly Biosciences, a firm developing therapeutics targeting hepatitis B virus and other viral diseases.
Biotech EdiGene has announced an R&D collaboration with Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem to develop hematopoietic stem cell regenerative therapies and platform technology.
Clover Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotech developing novel vaccines and biologic therapeutic candidates, has started construction on a new R&D Center in Zhangjiang Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industrial Base in Shanghai.
Chinook Therapeutics, Inc. has announced the formation of SanReno Therapeutics - a joint venture with an investor syndicate led by Frazier Healthcare Partners and Pivotal bioVenture Partners China - to develop, manufacture and commercialize kidney disease...
Simcere has announced a partnership with Vivoryon whereby it will leverage the potential of innovative N3pE amyloid-targeting agents to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in Greater China.
Bio-Thera Solutions recently initiated a Phase 3 trial of its proposed golimumab biosimilar BAT2506 in China and Eastern Europe, making it the first subcutaneous golimumab biosimilar to do so in multiple countries, according to a report from GlobalData.
Cytiva has opened a new diagnostics design lab in Tonglu, its manufacturing site close to Shanghai in East China, where it has been making filtration products for many years.
Pfizer is selling a biologics manufacturing unit in the eastern city of Hangzhou to WuXi Biologics, despite the US pharma giant having ploughed US$350m into the site in 2016 to develop biosimilars.
Clover Biopharmaceuticals today announced that it has raised US$230m in Series C financing, bringing to over US$400m the funds it has generated in the past 12 months.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has inked a joint venture deal with Innoforce, a Chinese bioinnovation-enabling company, to establish a new pharma services facility in Hangzhou, China, for integrated biologics and steriles drug development and manufacturing....
BeiGene’s immunotherapy becomes its first treatment to receive approval in China and Boehringer announces that it has begun manufacture of the product.
Shanghai Pharma and Biocad established a joint venture to commercialize the latter’s portfolio of biosimilars and biologic treatments for the Chinese market.
iBio grants CC-Pharming exclusive license to commercialize rituximab in China, as well as a research license to bring its FastPharming technology to the country.
In 1H financials, WuXi Biologics outlines positive developments across its ‘three major markets’, stressing that US growth is still strong despite US-China trade relations.
Celltrion has partnered with Nan Fung Group to create Vcell Healthcare, which will manufacture and commercialize three of Celltrion’s biosimilar products in China.
