The cold winter of CXO has lasted for three full years since the second half of 2021. From industry leaders to emerging pharmaceutical companies, everyone has felt the chill. However, since the second half of 2024, the entire industry has shown some signs of recovery. Against the backdrop of interest rate cuts in Europe and the United States, the situation in the pharmaceutical investment and financing market has reversed, orders from many listed companies have begun to grow, and the industry turning point is about to come. Haoyuan Pharmaceutical is one of the first CXO companies to feel the warmth. Since the end of August, the stock price has risen from a low of 18.49 yuan/share to a high of 46.52 yuan/share, an increase of more than 150%. Haoyuan Pharmaceutical stock price trend Image source: Oriental Fortune What is the secret of Haoyuan Pharmaceutical behind the fluctuations in stock prices? ...
On November 12, ST Jiuzhi issued a “Notice on the Transfer of Equity by the Controlling Shareholder and the Proposed Change of Control and Equity”. On November 10, Li Zhenguo, the controlling shareholder and actual controller of Jiuzhitang, signed the “Share Transfer Agreement on Jiuzhitang Co., Ltd.” with Heilongjiang Chenneng University of Technology Venture Capital, stipulating that Li Zhenguo will transfer his 6.25% stake in Jiuzhitang to Chenneng Venture Capital, and the total transfer amount of the target shares is about 385 million yuan. After the transfer is completed, Chenneng Venture Capital will become the controlling shareholder of ST Jiuzhi, with a controlling proportion of 24.04%, and the Heilongjiang Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission will become the actual controller of ST Jiuzhi. Li Zhenguo holds 18.19% of ST Jiuzhi’s shares, making him the second largest shareholder. Specific changes in equity: It is worth mentioning that there were early ...
On November 8th, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province held a conference on the high-quality development of the synthetic biology industry and released the “Three Year Action Plan for the High Quality Development of the Synthetic Biology Industry in Hangzhou (2024-2026)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Three Year Action Plan”). According to the “Three Year Action Plan”, Hangzhou aims to implement five major actions, including breakthroughs in core technology, upgrading of platform capabilities, cultivation of enterprise tiers, strengthening of industrial clusters, and optimization of industrial ecology. The goal is to achieve a total output value of 40 billion yuan in the city’s synthetic biomanufacturing industry by 2026. According to incomplete statistics, Hangzhou currently has more than 260 synthetic biology related enterprises, with a production value of over 25 billion yuan by 2023. Shen Kaibo, Deputy Secretary General of Hangzhou Municipal Government, stated that with the release of the “Three Year Action Plan”, Hangzhou ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recently, Asia Pacific Pharmaceuticals issued the “Announcement on the Progress of Liquidation and Cancellation of Joint Ventures”. A Biotech company that it established with an investment of approximately RMB 35.84 million in 2019 has completed the deregistration procedures. Asia Pacific Pharmaceuticals is mainly engaged in pharmaceutical manufacturing and CRO service businesses, covering chemical pharmaceutical preparations, chemical APIs, and pharmaceutical research and development. Its main products include roxithromycin capsules, cephalexin capsules, azithromycin dispersible tablets, and azithromycin for injection. The Biotech business area that was deregistered and liquidated this time was the new track that Asia Pacific Pharmaceuticals first contacted at the time – industrial hemp. It is reported that according to the different mass concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contained in hemp, hemp can be divided into industrial hemp, intermediate hemp, and recreational hemp. Industrial hemp refers to hemp with a THC content of less than 0.3%, which does not show psychoactive ...
Disclaimer: Due to limited proficiency, errors are inevitable, or some information may not be timely. Please feel free to leave a message to indicate. This article only provides an introduction to medical and health-related drugs, and does not recommend treatment plans (if applicable); This article does not constitute any investment advice. 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 ...
On November 6, Novo Nordisk released its third-quarter report for 2024. In the first nine months of this year, sales increased by 23% to 204.7 billion Danish kroner, of which sales of diabetes and obesity treatment drugs increased by 25% to 191.8 billion Danish kroner. The star product Semaglutide continued to advance by leaps and bounds, with sales of three brands (sugar-lowering injection Ozempic, sugar-lowering tablets Rybelsus, and weight-loss injection Wegovy) reaching 141.213 billion Danish kroner, or about 20.3 billion US dollars, in the first nine months of this year. Not long ago, Eli Lilly also announced its performance, among which the sales of two brands of GIPR/GLP-1R dual agonist Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, a hypoglycemic injection, and Zepbound, a weight loss injection) reached US$11.0284 billion in the first three quarters of this year. Specifically, Mounjaro’s sales revenue was US$8.010 billion, and Zepbound’s sales revenue was US$3.018 billion. Zepbound has been rapidly ...
In front of the old domestic eye medicine leaders such as Yisheng Bio and Xingqi Eye Medicine, Zhaoke Ophthalmology is a young upstart. In 2021, Zhaoke Ophthalmology successfully landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as the second eye medicine biotechnology company with 25 ophthalmic drug candidates. Three years later, although it has not yet gotten out of the quagmire of losses, Zhaoke Ophthalmology is still working hard in the eye medicine track and finally ushered in the opportunity to overtake on the curve. Two years of rapid growth, fierce attack on the “first billion drug” Recently, Zhaoke Ophthalmology announced that the Phase III clinical trial (China CHAMP) of its eye medicine candidate NVK002 has achieved positive top-line results. NVK002 is an experimental new topical ocular solution for controlling the deepening of myopia in children and adolescents (using 0.01% and 0.02% low-dose atropine). This is the most popular atropine myopia ...
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