Haisco Strikes $1.5 Billion NewCo Deal with Sentivera for Type 2 Inflammation Asset
Chinese drugmaker Haisco Pharmaceutical Group has struck another billion-dollar cross-border transaction, licensing ex-Greater China rights to a preclinical immunology asset to newly formed U.S. biotech Sentivera in a deal potentially worth more than…
LaNova Medicines’ Next-Generation Nectin-4 ADC LM-364 Wins China IND Clearance for Advanced Solid Tumors
LaNova Medicines has received clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to advance LM-364, its next-generation tumor microenvironment-responsive Nectin-4 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), into clinical development for patients…
Leads Biolabs’ Opamtistomig NDA Accepted in China, Setting Up Potential World-First 4-1BB Therapy
Nanjing Leads Biolabs announced that China’s Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) under the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has formally accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for Opamtistomig (LBL-024), the company’s internally developed…
BIC 2026 8th Asia Biologics Innovation Conference
BIC 2026 will showcase next-generation modalities—from ADCs and siRNA to iPSCs and peptides—to advance drug R&D and clinical progress in cardiorenal, metabolic, and liver diseases. A key focus will be placed on pioneering strategies that transition…
Kelun-Biotech’s TROP2 ADC Sac-TMT Shows Durable Activity Across Genomically Altered NSCLC in a Phase 2 Study
Sichuan Kelun-Biotech has reported new Phase 2 data for its TROP2-directed antibody-drug conjugate sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT; SKB264/MK-2870) in heavily pretreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), showing durable antitumor activity across…
Innovent’s Once-Weekly Oral GLP-1 IBI3042 Gets NMPA IND Clearance for Obesity
Innovent Biologics has received clearance from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to begin clinical development of IBI3042, a potentially first-in-class once-weekly oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist, marking another…
Bio-Thera and Avalon Pharma Sign MENA Deal for BAT2406, Proposed Dupixent Biosimilar
China’s Bio-Thera Solutions and Saudi Arabia-based Avalon Pharma have entered into commercialization and license agreements for BAT2406, a proposed biosimilar to Dupixent® (dupilumab), covering Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East and North Africa…
DAJO Bio Raises Tens of Millions of RMB in Seed Financing to Advance Next-Generation TCR Protein Therapies
Shenzhen-based biotechnology startup DAJO Bio (“DAJO”) has completed a seed financing round worth tens of millions of RMB, providing fresh capital to advance its next-generation T-cell receptor (TCR) protein therapeutic platforms and pipeline…
Biokin’s Iza-bren hits Phase 3 PFS endpoint in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC, marking 4th positive Phase 3 trial
Sichuan Biokin Pharmaceutical’s izalontamab brengitecan (iza-bren, BL-B01D1) has achieved another major clinical milestone, with the company reporting that its Phase 3 BL-B01D1-301 study in previously treated EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer…
Navi Therapeutics raises Series A to advance AI-driven next-generation ADC platform
China-based biotech Navi Therapeutics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (“Navi”) has completed a Series A financing round, marking the company’s second fundraising since its founding roughly 18 months ago and bringing its cumulative funding to…