Recently, according to the official website of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Danaher, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences announced the appointment of Joe Fox as President, effective immediately. Following the promotion of Chen Xiaoxiao, former General Manager of Beckman Clinical Diagnostics China, to President of Danaher China Medical Diagnostic Platform in the first half of the year, Beckman has once again announced personnel changes. It is understood that Joe Fox is a veteran of Danaher and has served as the president of Danaher’s subsidiary, Sciex. Prior to becoming president, he held multiple leadership positions at the company, including Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Service. Over the course of 13 years, Joe Fox’s responsibilities have increased, until he recently became president. Prior to joining Sciex, Joe Fox held technical and business positions at Bruker and Shimadzu, and also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the ...
Vertex (Futai Pharmaceuticals) has a long-standing reputation. It has worked in the field of rare diseases for more than ten years and has created an orphan drug blockbuster trikafta with annual sales of over $10 billion. Today, the company has opened up new horizons in another field. Recently, Vertex announced that the FDA has accepted the marketing application of the Nav1.8 inhibitor VX-548 (Suzetrigine) and granted priority review qualification for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain. This is a major breakthrough in the field of analgesics and may subvert the competitive landscape of analgesics commercialization. Analgesics have always been valued by the medical community, both in academia and industry. And every pharmacology textbook and medicinal chemistry textbook used as a teaching material cannot avoid a classic drug: morphine. Whether it is its rigid structure of five fused rings or its analgesic and antitussive pharmacological effects, it is well ...
On August 5, Hong Kong-listed innovative pharmaceutical company Jiahe Biologics (06998.HK) announced that the group entered into a licensing agreement and equity agreement with TRC2004, Inc. on August 2. Pursuant to the License Agreement, the Group has agreed, among other things, to grant TRC2004 an exclusive global license (excluding Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) to develop, use, manufacture, commercialize and otherwise exploit GB261. According to the terms of the license agreement and equity agreement, as consideration for the license, the Group will receive a considerable amount of equity in TRC2004, an down payment of tens of millions of US dollars, milestone payments of up to US$443 million, and a single-digit to double-digit share of net sales. percentage tiered royalties. CD3/CD20 inhibitor potential stocks. GB261 is a new type of differentiated CD20/CD3 bispecific T cell engager (TCE) and the first T cell engager (T-cell Engager) that binds to CD3 ...
On September 9, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress returned from a summer break and immediately scheduled a series of legislative votes, including the draft Biosafety Act (H.R. 8333). The draft biosecurity law passed the House of Representatives with 306 votes in favor and 81 votes against, but the 70% support rate made it the most divisive draft bill in the same batch, and even narrowly fell below the “bottom line” of more than two-thirds of the votes to pass the bill. The draft Biosafety Act places five companies, including WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics, on the list of “biotechnology companies of concern” on the grounds of “national security”, and intends to restrict the use of funds, loans or subsidies from the United States government to cooperate with these companies. Unlike previous committees that voted in small groups, this time there were several members of the House ...
Starting in June 2024, global scholars concerned with HIV prevention will focus their attention on Gilead’s antiviral drug, lenacapavir. At that time, Gilead released the latest data from the PURPOSE 1 trial, which demonstrated that lenacapavir, when administered via two annual injections, resulted in zero infections compared to daily oral PrEP medications. This suggests that, in the absence of successful vaccine development, lenacapavir could potentially serve as a long-lasting preventive alternative. However, whether the results of the PURPOSE 1 trial were a coincidence or a certainty remains unanswered. In September, Gilead further presented results from the PURPOSE 2 trial, indicating a higher likelihood of certainty. The results showed that 99.9% of participants in the lenacapavir group did not contract HIV, representing a 96% reduction in infection risk compared to the placebo group. This might signal that we are approaching an era of highly effective HIV prevention. 01 / The ...
On September 26th, the Shanghai Stock Exchange announced that Hangzhou Jianjia Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Jianjia Medical) has applied to withdraw its application for listing and therefore decided to terminate the review of its public offering of shares and listing on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. It is reported that Jianjia Robot applied for an IPO on the Science and Technology Innovation Board on April 2, 2023. After a round of inquiries, the Shanghai Stock Exchange reviewed and focused on issues such as orthopedic and dental implant surgical robots, market space, and core technologies. It takes one and a half years from application to termination. Yesterday, Jianjia Robot terminated its IPO, and another equipment company’s attempt to go public failed. The winter of IPO for equipment companies continues. When will spring come? Jianjia Robot has great potential for the future Jianjia Robot was founded in ...
Recently, Astellas announced that Japan’s MHLW has approved its ADC drug ennozumab PADCEV and Merck’s K drug as a first-line combination therapy for adult patients with fundamentally unresectable urothelial cancer. With excellent data, this combination treatment regimen was approved by the Japanese MHLW in such a short time after Merck announced on September 4 that it had been approved by the European Commission (EC) as a first-line therapy. However, sporadic victories cannot conceal the plight of K-drugs. For the pharmaceutical industry, the biggest hot spot in the past two weeks is definitely the announcement by Kangfang Biologics on September 8 that ivocilimab has become the world’s first and only single-drug head-to-head phase III clinical study to prove that its efficacy is significantly better than that of pabrolib. The drug Zizumab. On the day the results were announced, Merck’s stock price fell in response, and the dilemma was obvious. Under the ...
On September 25th, the National Medical Products Administration announced that it has recently approved the registration application for the innovative product “CT angiography image assisted detection software for intracranial aneurysms” of Shanghai Lianying Intelligent Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Lianying Intelligent”). Effective improvement, innovative products begin to emerge Lianying Intelligence is an artificial intelligence company under Lianying Group, established in Shanghai at the end of 2017. It is an important strategic layout of Lianying Group in the field of artificial intelligence. Relying on the high-performance software and hardware technology platform and resource advantages of Lianying Group, Lianying Intelligence has become a medical AI enterprise that can provide multi scenario, multi disease, full process, and integrated intelligent solutions. It empowers clinical, scientific research, and equipment with AI, covering multiple AI application scenarios such as hospital level management, medical innovation ecology, workflow optimization, precision diagnosis and treatment, and personal ...
On September 25, NMPA released information on the delivery of drug certification documents, and the rivastigmine transdermal patch of Beijing Taide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Tide Pharmaceutical”), a subsidiary of Sino Biopharmaceutical, was approved for marketing. It is understood that the drug can be used to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Forecasts of the development trend of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in China show that in 2030, 2040 and 2050, the number of AD patients in the population aged 60 and above in China will reach 19.11 million, 24.71 million and 27.65 million respectively. Under the influence of multiple factors such as the accelerated aging trend of the population in China and the increasing prevalence of major cardiovascular diseases and related factors, the prevalence and number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease have also shown an increasing trend year by year. Rivastigmine is an ...
Today (September 24), CDE plans to include Novartis’ Lutetium [177Lu] Texivirpitide Injection and Radioactive Drug Gallium [68Ga] Gozertide Injection Preparation Kit in the priority review. According to the CDE official website, both drugs are based on the “Opinions of the National Medical Products Administration on Reforming and Improving the Management System for the Review and Approval of Radioactive Drugs” (National Medical Products Administration Drug Note [2023] No. 20) and the “Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for Medical Isotopes (2021-2035)”. After review, they comply with the “Drug Registration Management Measures” and the “Announcement of the National Medical Products Administration on the Release of the “Breakthrough Therapeutic Drug Review Work Procedures (Trial)” and other three documents (No. 82 of 2020). The requirements are agreed to be included in the priority review and approval procedure according to the priority review scope “(VI) Other circumstances prescribed by the National Medical Products Administration for priority ...
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