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…
Hengrui Advances SHR-8203 Into Phase 1/2 Study in Advanced Solid Tumors, With Filing Hinting at Potential PD-1/VEGF/CTLA-4 Trispecific
Chinese pharmaceutical giant Hengrui Pharma has registered a new clinical study of SHR-8203 injection on China’s drug trial registration platform, moving the previously undisclosed biologic into a multicenter Phase 1/2 trial in patients with…
HUTCHMED’s Savolitinib-Tagrisso Combo Delivers Positive Phase 3 Results in MET-Driven EGFR-Mutated NSCLC
HUTCHMED has announced positive topline results from the global Phase 3 SAFFRON trial, showing that the combination of ORPATHYS® (savolitinib) and TAGRISSO® (osimertinib) delivered statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in both…
Henlius Expands Sandoz Partnership in Up to $322 Million Biosimilars Deal
Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. (“Henlius”) has significantly expanded its partnership with Sandoz, entering a strategic collaboration covering up to 10 monoclonal antibody (mAb) and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) biosimilar candidates in a…
Merck and InventisBio Ink a Partnership to Advance Clinical Development of Small-Molecule Cancer Drugs
August 10, 2026, Merck R&D (China) Co., Ltd. and InventisBio Co., Ltd. (or InventisBio), an innovative pharmaceutical company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, simultaneously announced that they had signed a cooperation agreement…
BeiGene and Revolution Medicines Enter Strategic Collaboration
On August 10, BeiGene announced a multi-faceted collaboration agreement with Revolution Medicines. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate on clinical trials to jointly evaluate combination therapies of some of BeiGene’s…
GenFleet launches world’s first Phase 3 study of an oral KRAS G12D inhibitor for the treatment of NSCLC
GenFleet Therapeutics today held a national investigator conference for its Phase III registrational clinical trial of GFH375 (an oral KRAS G12D inhibitor) as monotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (“Kylin-Flight 01”). “Kylin-Flight 01” is a…
Alphamab Oncology and Pathos reach international licensing agreement for TROP2/HER3 bispecific ADC.
On August 4, Alphamab Oncology (“Alphamab”) announced a licensing agreement with Pathos AI (“Pathos”) for its proprietary, “First-in-Class” TROP2/HER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), JSKN016. Under the…
Kelun Biotech seeks marketing approval on sac-TMT for the first-line treatment of PD-L1-negative TNBC
On July 30, 2026, Sichuan Kelun Biotech Co., Ltd. (“Kelun”) announced that its independently developed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting human trophoblast surface antigen 2 (TROP2), sac-TMT (also known as SKB264/MK-2870) (Gitalay®), has…
Hansoh’s HS-20093 met its Phase 3 goals, strengthening its status as a top B7-H3 ADC contender.
In less than a month, Hansoh Pharmaceutical‘s B7-H3 targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) HS-20093 (Risvutatug Rezetecan) achieved two globally significant clinical breakthroughs. On July 28, Hansoh announced that the ARTEMIS-011 Phase III…