AbbVie’s upadacitinib has hit primary and secondary targets in the first late-stage trial of the drug involving patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Regeneron is a role model for the biotech community. No biotech company wants to be Regeneron. “Becoming China’s Regeneron” is the slogan of many domestic biotechs. However, such a Regeneron cannot escape its midlife crisis. The attack of opponents, the victory of Eylea generic drugs, and the successive blows of dual-antibodies have put Regeneron in an extremely delicate stage. On the one hand, with two blockbuster drugs, Regeneron has completed the transformation from biotech to big pharma. In the first half of the year, its stock price continued to rise, successfully breaking through the $100 billion threshold, and its market value reached $133.2 billion. On the other hand, although the market believes in Regeneron’s R&D and platform technology capabilities, how can a new billion-dollar blockbuster drug be so easy? And Regeneron’s highly anticipated oncology business is not as glamorous as autoimmunity and ophthalmology, and its progress is also lackluster. So ...
On November 18th, VelaVigo Cayman Limited announced a global strategic partnership agreement with Avenzo Therapeutics, Inc. (Avenzo). According to the agreement, Orange Sail Pharmaceuticals will grant Avenzo the development, production, and commercialization of Nectin4/TROP2 bispecific antibody conjugates worldwide (excluding Greater China), while retaining relevant rights in Greater China. Both parties will jointly promote the development and clinical application of the project on a global scale. The project plans to submit an IND to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China by 2025. According to the terms of the agreement, Orange Sail Pharmaceuticals will receive a down payment of up to $50 million and recent milestone payments. After achieving key milestones in development, regulatory approval, and sales, the company is expected to receive up to $750 million in follow-up milestone payments and tiered royalty payments based on sales in the Avenzo region. ...
The development of therapies for Alzheimer’s disease has always caused many developers to feel exhausted, and now AbbVie has also increased its investment in neurodegenerative diseases. AbbVie has agreed to spend $1.4 billion to acquire Aliada Therapeutics, whose main acquisition asset is Aliada’s authorized Alzheimer’s disease candidate drug ALIA-1758 from Johnson&Johnson. Its mechanism of action is still an anti beta amyloid protein (3pE-A β) antibody, but the unique feature of ALIA-1758 is that it can cross the blood-brain barrier, greatly improving the brain’s absorption rate. Aliada started a phase 1 trial among healthy volunteers in May, but AbbVie believes the timing is ripe for acquisition. Previously, AbbVie made the decision to abandon its internal Alzheimer’s disease asset ABBV-916. This anti beta amyloid antibody has no significant difference in safety and efficacy compared to the already marketed monoclonal antibody therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, AbbVie decided to terminate the development ...
The development story of tumor drugs is always so similar: the early stage may be endless suffering, but after countless failures and dashed hopes, once there is a breakthrough, the progress is often unexpected. This is the development of drugs for the treatment of small cell carcinoma (SCLC). SCLC was first discovered about 100 years ago, but it was not until 1968 that the medical community discovered its neuroendocrine origin and finally clearly distinguished it from other lung cancers. In the 1980s, the treatment of platinum-containing chemotherapy combined with chest radiotherapy gradually became clear and became the basic treatment for small cell lung cancer. Although the combination of etoposide and carboplatin/cisplatin (EP) has been the standard treatment for SCLC until now; but we can also clearly see that the battle against small cell lung cancer has entered an accelerated stage. In May of this year, Amgen’s DLL3/CD3 dual antibody Tarlatamab ...
Recently, Ascletis announced that its independently developed small molecule GLP-1R agonist ASC30 is undergoing two Phase I clinical trials in the United States for the treatment of obesity with monthly subcutaneous injections and daily oral tablets. With the launch of these two Phase I clinical trials, Ascletis has officially entered the field of weight loss drugs. This is another highlight of the pipeline after Ascletis announced in April this year that it would focus on the development of core non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) drugs. Urgent need for a new engine Like most biotechs, Ascletis has also been moving forward by trial and error. However, Ascletis is luckier than most biotechs. It has become famous for its first local original hepatitis C drug Ganovo, which not only broke the monopoly of multinational companies such as Gilead, AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Merck in the domestic hepatitis C drug market, ...
Recently, according to the Financial Times, Bausch Lomb, the world’s second-largest ophthalmic giant, is seeking to sell itself and completely spin off from its parent company, Bausch Health. In recent years, under the implementation of merger and acquisition strategies, Doctoral Health has developed its business pipeline comprehensively. However, due to being trapped in a huge debt crisis, it had to reduce its burden and slim down. Bausch&Lomb is one of the targets of its sale and spin off this time. Mergers and acquisitions are both successful and unsuccessful Bausch&Lomb was founded in New York, USA in 1853 and was listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2022. It has a development history of nearly 170 years. At first, Bausch&Lomb was just a small eyewear store, but over the years, it has become one of the world-renowned eye care companies. From the perspective of ...
As one of the blue oceans in the field of autoimmune diseases , inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment drugs are sought after and deployed by many multinational pharmaceutical companies. Recently, Eli Lilly acquired Morphic for US$3.2 billion and obtained its core pipeline α4β7 integrin inhibitor MORF-057, further expanding its influence in the field of gastrointestinal diseases. In addition to Eli Lilly, pharmaceutical giants including AbbVie, AstraZeneca, and Merck have laid out IBD treatment drugs and carried out related mergers and acquisitions. Behind the frequent actions, why do multinational pharmaceutical companies favor IBD treatment drugs so much? The dilemma of traditional treatment IBD is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that mainly affects the digestive system. Its symptoms include severe diarrhea, frequent abdominal pain, blood in the stool, weight loss, and severe cancer. IBD mainly includes two types: ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). The two IBDs have both overlaps and ...
Innovative drugs are a gamble, a big gamble. Once the research and development fails, the stock price collapses and financing is unavailable. On the contrary, if the gamble is won, it is not impossible for the stock price to soar. Especially in the US stock market, it has always been so violent. For the losers, there are only two options: disband on the spot or fight back. The so-called fight back means finding a way to start the next round of innovation gambling. This requires both money and the courage to gamble. Summit is an old “gambler” who plans to gamble again. After its establishment in 2003, Summit focused on the anti-infection field, and its core product was benchmarked against vancomycin, the “last line of defense for antibiotics.” It landed on Nasdaq in 2015, but because the core product ridinilazole did not perform well in the final clinical data, the ...
In the first half of 2024, the total import and export volume of raw materials in China reached 26.52 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 0.6%. Among them, the export value was 21.34 billion US dollars, a slight increase of 0.1% year-on-year; The import volume was 5.18 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%. 1. Overall Overview and Trend Analysis As the main raw material products in the category of Western medicine import and export products in China, active pharmaceutical ingredients account for 50% of Western medicine foreign trade. From the perspective of exports alone, raw materials account for 80% of the export of Western medicine products. From the import and export situation since 2021, it can be seen that the global demand for active pharmaceutical ingredients has rapidly increased due to the epidemic. In 2022, the foreign trade of active pharmaceutical ingredients reached a historical high, with ...
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