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China Eric Bouteiller examines the most recent update to China’s National Reimbursement Drug List, the positive impact that a de facto annual review has had on drug approval timelines, and why a more streamlined and data driven review process is positive news for the innovative pharmaceutical industry. However, Bouteiller cautions that…

China Since China first announced its ground-breaking volume-based procurement (VBP) pilot program to reduce drug expenditures in 2018, the world’s second-largest pharma market has steadily expanded the 4+7 pilot program into a regular national and provincial exercise, lopping off over a billion dollars from the top lines of both multinational and…

China 2020 has been eventful – perhaps the understatement of the year – but despite the novel coronavirus being discovered in China around the beginning of 2020, the country bounced back from the COVID-19 outbreaks by mid-year to deliver the hottest year for Chinese biopharma yet.   The Chinese biopharma sector…

China While many parts of the world ground to a halt as they tried to deal with the global pandemic, China had more or less brought the situation under control by June, and the healthcare deals engine just kept on churning. MSQ Ventures recently published its 2020 China Biopharma Global Transactions…

Global Following the recent news of Remegen’s massive USD 515 million IPO in November 2020, we bring you profiles of the seven biggest biotech companies to IPO in 2020. Notably, six of the seven companies are from China, pointing to the massive growth of the Chinese biotech market.   Remegen RemeGen,…

China The latest from Chinese pharma, including domestic regulatory approval for Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, how the country’s online healthcare industry is booming in the wake of the pandemic, and news that companies are slashing prices on new products by an average of 51 percent in order for them to be covered…

China The latest from Chinese pharma, including a drop in share prices for Chinese vaccine firms in the wake of successful COVID-19 trial results from western rivals, a new Pfizer-LianBio agreement, and Thermo Fisher’s new pharma services facility.   China pharma shares fall as western rivals lead in vaccine trials https://www.ft.com/content/c4c8453e-39f6-4aac-83a3-7d16a3f4fa4b…

Global Following the recent news of Remegen’s massive USD 515 million IPO in November 2020, we bring you the seven biggest biotech IPOs this year. Notably, six of the seven companies are from China, pointing to the massive growth of the Chinese biotech market. Made with Visme Infographic Maker

China PharmaBoardroom had the pleasure of interviewing HitGen chairman & CEO Dr Jin LI in July regarding the company’s focus on DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DEL) and their multipronged business strategy. Established in 2012, the company introduced the novel DEL technology platform to China.   As Dr Li recounted, “it was not…

China RemeGen, a low-profile Chinese biotech company based in Yantai city in the coastal Shandong province, around nine hours by train from the bustling biopharma hub of Shanghai, just made history by becoming the largest biotech IPO to date globally in 2020. It is also one of the biggest IPOs of…

China A roundup of the latest from Chinese pharma, including Green Valley’s upcoming US trial for an Alzheimer’s drug inspired by algae; Samsung Biologics expansion in China; Fosun Pharma’s halt to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine; and CAR-T biotech JW Therapeutics raising USD 300m in its IPO on the Hong…

China While cell and gene therapies are all the rage now, a little known fact is that the world’s first approved gene therapy actually came from a Chinese company – in 2003! Gendicine® was a gene therapy for the treatment of haemophilia B. While China mostly lost the advantage of that…