According to the Instant Drug Database, last week (November 4th to November 10th), at least four emerging companies dedicated to innovative drug research and development worldwide announced the completion of a new round of financing, including three Chinese companies. These emerging companies that have gained favor in the capital market are developing drug types such as gene therapy drugs, iPSC cell therapy drugs, peptide vaccines, and antibody conjugated drugs (ADCs) with dual payloads. Kanglin Biotechnology Financing round: Series A Financing amount: 150 million yuan On November 8th, Kanglin Biotechnology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Kanglin Biotechnology”) announced the completion of a 150 million yuan Series A financing, jointly invested by Zhejiang Province’s “4+1” Biomedical and High end Device Industry Fund and old shareholder Zhejiang Miyin Investment Management Co., Ltd. Kanglin Biology was founded in 2015, focusing on the R&D and commercialization of innovative drugs for gene therapy, targeting diseases ...
Recently, Yum! Brands announced the establishment of a new manufacturing base (B-15, Sector 60 Noida Uttar Pradesh) in New Delhi, created and managed by its subsidiary Esaote Asia Pacific Diagnostic Private Limited, to further strengthen its business in India. Yum! Brands’ new production base will produce a full range of “Made in India” advanced ultrasound products for the Indian market, including My Lab ™ A、My Lab ™ E Series and compact portable ultrasound devices will be launched on the market shortly after completing regulatory and quality assurance processes with local authorities. Data shows that Yum! Brands is headquartered in Italy, with its main research and development production bases located in Italy, as well as production bases in the Netherlands and China. In the field of ultrasound imaging, Baisheng Medical Group has mastered the core technology of the entire industry chain and has the ability to independently develop core components. It ...
Hefei is soliciting opinions on the continuous procurement of three types of medical consumables, and the centralized procurement of consumables in prefecture level cities continues to accelerate. 3 types of consumables, with purchase renewal upon expiration On November 7th, the Medical Security Bureau of Hefei City solicited opinions on the draft of the “HFHCDC-2024-1 Concentrated Procurement Document for Some Medical Consumables in Hefei City” (hereinafter referred to as the “Draft for Comments”), which will soon start the continuous procurement work for three types of medical consumables. The specific procurement varieties and related requirements are as follows: According to the draft for soliciting opinions, the actual purchase quantity of selected products in each medical institution shall not be less than 80% of the total purchase quantity of the same variety. The procurement entity for this continuation of procurement work is public medical institutions in Hefei city. The proposed selection rules are ...
On November 11, the “Notice of the Office of the National Medical Insurance Administration and the General Office of the Ministry of Finance on Doing a Good Job in Prepayment of Medical Insurance Funds” (full text attached at the end of the article) was officially released. According to the notice, in principle, the prepayment is based on the average monthly expenditure of the relevant medical insurance funds in the previous one to three years, and the basic scale is determined, and adjusted in combination with the annual comprehensive evaluation and credit evaluation of designated medical institutions. The prepayment scale is about 1 month. The document clearly stipulates that medical insurance prepayments shall not be used for non-medical expenses such as medical institution infrastructure investment, daily operation, and debt repayment. The special prepayment of medical insurance funds for centralized volume procurement of drugs and medical consumables shall be implemented in accordance ...
On November 8, China Resources Boya Bio’s official website announced that “China Resources Boya Bio and Green Cross (China) meeting and work docking meeting were successfully held”. Two days ago (November 6), China Resources Boya Bio completed the acquisition of 100% equity of Green Cross (Hong Kong) and began to include it in the scope of consolidated financial statements. So far, “China Resources” has officially made another move in the blood products sector. In July this year, China Resources Boya Bio agreed to transfer 100% equity of Green Cross (Hong Kong) with its own funds of 1.82 billion yuan, thereby indirectly acquiring the domestic blood products entity Green Cross (China) (for details, please refer to the previous article “Spending 1.82 billion! China Resources Group takes action again”). As the blood products platform of China Resources’ big health sector, China Resources Boya Bio’s contribution to China Resources Pharmaceutical’s performance cannot be ...
On November 6, 2024, Hengrui Medicine, the “pharmaceutical leader” listed on the A-share market, announced that the second lock-up period of the company’s 2022 employee stock ownership plan will expire on November 7, 2024. After the expiration, the management committee will dispose of the rights and interests in accordance with the provisions of this employee stock ownership plan based on the arrangements of this employee stock ownership plan, market conditions and other comprehensive factors. This also means that hundreds of core employees of Hengrui Medicine will share a big “red envelope” again. Hengrui’s employee stock ownership plan was established in November 2022. The shares came from the company’s repurchase special securities account, totaling 12 million shares; according to the disclosed information at the time, the transfer price was only 4.97 yuan/share. As of November 6, 2024, Hengrui Medicine’s closing price was 48.75 yuan/share, which is nearly 10 times the original ...
The third quarter of 2024 is an epoch-making watershed. An unprecedented large-scale stagnation has occurred in the consumer healthcare field. From medical beauty, ophthalmology, dentistry, pharmaceutical retail, branded Chinese medicine, growth hormone to self-funded vaccines, the leaders in various segments have become old and collectively lost their growth potential. The mismatch between business model, product structure and consumer market is one of the reasons for the predicament, but it is so difficult for a company to get out of the path dependence that created its former glory. Now there are two problems. First, how does the market value companies that have lost their growth but are still profitable? When a company stops growing, the only investment attraction is high dividends, but consumer healthcare companies are almost all stingy. Second, when will consumption pick up? When will the consumption inflection point come? Japan’s situation from 1990 to 1997 is inspiring. Consumption ...
Drugdu.com expert’s response: Ⅰ. GMP Certification Concept GMP, an acronym for GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE, signifies “Good Manufacturing Practices” in Chinese. The World Health Organization defines GMP as a regulation guiding the production and quality management of food, pharmaceuticals, and medical products. GMP is a mandatory standard applicable to industries such as pharmaceuticals and food, requiring enterprises to meet hygiene quality requirements in terms of raw materials, personnel, facilities and equipment, production processes, packaging and transportation, and quality control, in accordance with relevant national regulations. It forms a set of operable operational norms to help enterprises improve their hygiene environment and promptly identify and rectify issues in the production process. GMP mandates that pharmaceutical and food production enterprises possess good production equipment, reasonable production processes, comprehensive quality management, and rigorous testing systems to ensure that the final product quality (including food safety and hygiene) meets regulatory requirements. In the pharmaceutical production ...
On the morning of November 6th, at the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE), Jean Christophe Pointeau, President of Pfizer China, a multinational pharmaceutical giant, revealed that the company will launch the “Pfizer China 2030 Strategy” during this year’s CIIE. From 2025 to 2030, Pfizer will invest 1 billion US dollars, about 7.5 billion yuan, in China. Pfizer will continue to invest in accelerating innovation, improving diagnostic capabilities and treatment standards, and promoting the development of the local biotechnology industry to support the ‘Healthy China 2030’ initiative. This strategy is based on three pillars: firstly, accelerating the launch of innovative drugs and introducing breakthrough innovative products more quickly; The second is to continue to improve diagnostic capabilities and treatment standards, especially in rural areas, and promote the connection between first-class hospitals and rural areas; The third is to promote the development of the local biotechnology industry. As an important part ...
According to media statistics, in the first half of 2024 alone, at least 32 innovative pharmaceutical companies in China successfully completed BD projects, achieving cross-border expansion and involving transaction amounts exceeding 20 billion US dollars, with a significant increase in quantity compared to previous years. And this trend continues into the second half of the year, with domestic innovative pharmaceutical companies such as Ruige Pharmaceutical, Jiahe Biotechnology, Tongrun Biotechnology, and Anmai Biotechnology all having significant BD transactions. Recently, a domestic innovative pharmaceutical company that has only been established for eight years and currently has only a few pipelines under research sold one of its products, BD, for a sky high price. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has officially announced that it has reached an acquisition agreement with Chinese innovative pharmaceutical company Chimagin Biosciences for the three specific antibody CMG1A46. Accordingly, GSK will make a prepayment of $300 million to Enmu Biotechnology to acquire ...
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