▲October 2024, CPhI Milan On October 10, 2024, the highly anticipated CPhI Milan event concluded in Italy, leaving behind a lasting impression. Drugdu.com, a global leader in cross-border pharmaceutical B2B platforms, stood out with its innovative digital solutions and accurate buyer-supplier matching services, garnering widespread attention from the global pharmaceutical community. ▲Drugdu.com at the CPhI Milan show in October 2024 Platform Highlights: Smart Cross-Border Trade Services At the event, Drugdu.com demonstrated its leading smart supply-demand matching feature, allowing buyers to effortlessly post procurement needs and swiftly connect with high-quality global suppliers. The platform’s real-time, efficient negotiations boosted transaction success, with many participants leveraging its capabilities to finalize collaborations during the exhibition. Additionally, Drugdu.com provided VIP members with customized promotion strategies, offering exclusive brand exposure and diverse inquiry channels to help businesses expand their global market presence. Advancing Digital Pharmaceutical Trade Beyond being a platform, Drugdu.com is committed to advancing the digitalization ...
October 11, 2024 09:03 Source: 21st Century Business Herald Has the cow arrived? The A-share market is booming, don’t miss the opportunity, open an account and layout now>> Recently, there has been a frequent wave of business development (BD) cooperation transactions between Chinese and foreign pharmaceutical companies. On October 9th, Baiaotai announced that it has reached an authorization license, production, supply, and commercialization agreement with Gedeon Richter Plc. for BAT2206 (ustekinumab) injection solution. According to the agreement, Baiaotai will license the exclusive commercial rights of the injection in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Australia, and other European markets to Gedeon Richter Plc for a fee. The amount involved in this transaction includes a down payment of $8.5 million, milestone payments up to a cumulative total of $101.5 million, and revenue sharing based on a double-digit percentage of net sales. In addition to Baiaotai, several Chinese pharmaceutical companies have also recently received ...
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 ...
Recently, BeiGene announced that its PD-1 inhibitor Trastuzumab (US trade name: TEVIMBRA) has been officially commercialized in the United States for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) who have previously received systemic chemotherapy (excluding PD-1/L1 inhibitors). Global pharmaceutical companies consider the US market as a battleground for going global. At the end of October 2023, Junshi Biotech’s trastuzumab (US trade name: LOQTORZI) obtained FDA approval, becoming the first nasopharyngeal carcinoma drug to be marketed in the United States, as well as the first biologically innovative drug and PD-1 inhibitor from China approved by the FDA. In March 2024, BeiGene’s Trastuzumab was approved for its first indication in the United States, following closely behind. After more than six months of FDA approval, Trastuzumab has finally been officially launched for sale in the United States. In the industry’s view, Chinese pharmaceutical companies such as ...
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 3, 2024, the Yunnan Provincial Drug Administration issued the “Notice on Further Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Drug Entrusted Production”, which clearly stated: “Applications without a drug GMP compliance inspection notice and consent to entrusted production issued by the provincial drug regulatory department where the entrusted enterprise is located will not be accepted; in principle, applications for long-term unproduced varieties that do not meet the conditions for resuming production will not be accepted.” This means that if the “zombie approval” that has not been produced for a long time is not resumed at the original factory, it will be difficult for the transferee to obtain a B certificate, that is, Yunnan enterprises basically cannot buy approvals that have not been produced for a long time. It seems that the regulatory authorities are worried about the resumption of sales of products whose generic names have not been produced ...
ARCH Venture Partners, an American biotech investment institution, announced the completion of over $3 billion in ARCH Venture Fund XIII fundraising, aimed at supporting the establishment and development of early-stage biotech companies. The 13th fund was established following the 12th fund of $2.975 billion announced in June 2022. “After 38 years, ARCH’s investment philosophy remains the same: we bet on great science and great teams to build breakthrough companies,” said Robert Nelsen, co-founder and managing director of ARCH. “We believe that artificial intelligence and new data-driven insights into biology will help build a more preventive, curative and equitable healthcare system.” “ARCH has a long history of identifying the top forward-looking trends in life science R&D and individuals who drive truly groundbreaking scientific hypotheses,” said Keith Crandell, co-founder and managing director of ARCH. “We are very excited about the pace of innovation and efforts to understand diseases at a deeper level.” ...
Drugdu.com expert’s response: Metformin, a widely used antidiabetic drug, has shown potential in recent research on anti-aging. Specifically, its anti-aging effects are manifested in the following aspects: Ⅰ. Scientific Research Achievements Research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Team: After an extensive 8-year study, the team led by Liu Guanghui from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered that metformin can reset the intrinsic program of cellular aging, significantly delaying aging in primates. This achievement was published in the journal “Cell”, providing new insights into the biological mechanisms of aging and potential strategies for future interventions in human aging. Experimental Evidence: The research team conducted a 40-month follow-up study on middle-aged and elderly male crab-eating macaques. The results showed that individuals who took metformin long-term exhibited significant delays in aging, including reduced brain cortex atrophy, improved cognitive function, delayed periodontal bone degeneration, and protection of multiple tissues and ...
With the popularization of systemic drugs that may affect eye health, it is particularly important to identify the eye side effects caused by drugs. In this medical case analysis, we delved into the diagnosis and treatment process of a 55 year old male patient with toxic optic neuropathy (TON) caused by long-term use of ciprofloxacin. This case provides us with an important warning about the potential impact of drug side effects on the visual system, while also emphasizing the necessity of carefully evaluating drug use history in clinical practice. Medical history summary The patient, male, 55 years old, complained of facial recognition difficulties and decreased reading ability for more than 2 months. Upon examination, it was found that there was a decrease in symmetrical visual acuity, visual field defects, and color vision abnormalities in both eyes. He was diagnosed with TON (usually selectively affecting the optic disc macular bundle). Medical ...
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