Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Basilea Pharmaceutica has entered into a license agreement with Shenzhen China Resources Gosun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (CR Gosun) for Basilea’s antibiotic Zevtera (ceftobiprole) in China, Hong Kong and Macao (the Territory).
China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Novo Nordisk’s Tresiba (insulin degludec) for the treatment of diabetes in China.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Mylan N.V. have entered into a license agreement between their respective subsidiaries, Otsuka Novel Products GmbH (ONPG) and Mylan Pharmaceuticals Private Limited (Mylan), to commercialize delamanid for the treatment of adults with pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in low- and middle-income countries.
SillaJen and Lee’s Pharmaceutical Holdings have said that they’ve gotten the approval from the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) to get a Phase 3 clinical trial for advanced liver cancer using its oncolytic immunotherapy called Pexa-Vec, the PHOCUS study.
Celgene Corporation and BeiGene have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize BeiGene’s investigational anti-programmed cell death protein 1…
Ipsen’s partner Teijin Group healtcare’s Pharma Limited, has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Ipsen’s subcutaneous drug Somatuline (lanreotide) for the treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP NET).
Announcing the phase 2 testing on Monday, the company said that the multicenter study of EC-18 (Mosedipimod), the world’s first oral medicine candidate to prevent and treat Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia (CIN), will begin dosing its first patient in the Asan Medical Center of Seoul, Korea. Enzychem also said it hopes to have EC-18 be approved by the FDA.
Sanovas, Inc., a Life Science technology company will establish a venture capital fund and Innovation Center at the Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and NanoBionics (SINANO) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to advance the company’s innovations and sales in China.
AstraZeneca has signed an agreement with Grünenthal for the global rights to Zomig (zolmitriptan), the drug indicated for the acute treatment of migraines and cluster headaches, outside Japan.
Drug delivery technology market grows from $1,179.20 billion to $1,669.40 billion at a CAGR of 7.2% from 2016-2021. Oral drug delivery segment is expected to account for the largest share while hospitals segment is expected to account for the largest share of the market and Asia is expected to be fastest-growing region.