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Hong Kong Having consolidated its position as Asia’s largest biotech fundraising hub – and the world’s second largest – the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) listed a total of 34 biotech and healthcare companies in 2021. “[Last year’s listings] made us rank first by number of deals and second by the amount…

China A selection of recent top stories from the Chinese pharma industry, including China’s conditional approval of Pfizer’s COVID treatment pill Paxlovid; a new push to combat monopoly practices and unfair competition in the domestic industry; and US FDA concerns about the applicability of Chinese clinical trial results for the US…

China PPC China’s Sophia Duan, writing in the January edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, details how the emergence of an effective pharmacovigilance ecosystem is helping to safeguard the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in China.   Since the breakout of COVID-19, many pharmaceutical companies in China have worked to develop preventative…

China Some of the biggest stories across China’s healthcare and life science industry today, including the 61.7 percent average price reduction Big Pharma took to get their drugs listed on China’s reimbursement list in 2021; the former GSK scientist pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets for Chinese pharma; and BioNTech’s continuing…

Global PharmaBoardroom’s network of thought leaders provided some of our best-read content in 2021 on topics ranging from China’s National Reimbursement Drug List to the vaccine row that erupted between AstraZeneca and the EU, the skills that pharma leaders need in the MEA region, the year’s most prominent trends, and how…

Global Based on IQVIA’s pharma market rankings for 2020, we give a rundown of the global top 10, key companies, important trends, and where you can go to learn more.   1. United States Way out in first place with a market value of USD 533.5 billion in sales in 2020,…

China The latest news from Chinese pharma, including an examination of the new national reimbursement drug list (NRDL), the therapies that have and have not made it onto the list, and the significant price cuts that have been agreed. Also included are the World Health Organization (WHO)’s plea to Chinese COVID-19…

China The phenomenal success of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has catapulted messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines into public consciousness, and mRNA technology is today receiving more scientific and financial attention than ever before. Suzhou, China-based biotech Abogen, for example, which has an mRNA-based COVID vaccine in late-stage development, has received…

Hong Kong Despite a “turbulent macro backdrop,” the strong momentum in Hong Kong’s IPO market has continued in the third quarter of 2021, driven to a large extent by new biotech listings.   “Biotechnology is today the fastest-growing IPO market segment,” says Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of HKEX, one of the world’s major…

China Perhaps Chinese biotech’s biggest success story, cancer-focused Beigene has evolved from the commitment of founders John Oyler and Xiaodong Wang to conducting clinical research in China with a global outlook. Fresh from recent announcements of an IPO in Shanghai to add to listings on NASDAQ and in Hong Kong and…

Switzerland Luye Pharma is a China-headquartered fully integrated oncology and CNS specialist. Bruno Delie, general manager for Switzerland, discusses the organization’s ambitious European expansion plan, looking to establish affiliates in the top five markets within the continent in order to introduce four or five new products from their pipeline in the…

China Portuguese national Isabel Afonso, a Novartis and Sandoz veteran of almost 20 years, has taken on a new role as general manager of Novartis’ highly strategic oncology franchise in China as of November 2021.   Since first joining the company back in 2002, Afonso held a variety of roles IT…