China This week’s China healthcare and pharma roundup from PharmaBoardroom content partner Selesta covers Gilead’s USD 350mn bet on in vivo CAR-T, GenFleet and Bao Pharma advancing Hong Kong IPOs, Fosun’s USD 670mn global out-licensing deal, new funding rounds for Vibrant and InxMed, and major clinical wins including Akeso’s NSCLC bispecific,…

China Chinese biopharma innovators are making real progress toward global expansion. However, as Vera Zhang of Bristol-Myers Squibb (China) Investment Co., Ltd. writes in DIA’s Global Forum magazine, moving beyond exporting products to building real global brands means investing in strategic international talent acquisition and well-defined roles, all underpinned by a…

China Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals is no longer just a local biopharma heavyweight. With a record-breaking and 450x oversubscribed IPO raising USD 1.27 billion, a flurry of global licensing deals with the likes of Merck and GSK, and a bold push into competitive therapeutic areas like obesity, the company is staking its…

China A roundup of some ot the biggest stories coming out of China’s biopharma industry: Chinese pharma shifts to local reagent suppliers; WuXi Biologics launches new stable cell line platform; Fosun and Expedition Therapeutics ink respiratory licensing deal, and GSK lands USD 500 million 12-drug agreement with Hengrui Pharma.   China…

China Chinese biotech is booming, led by a generation of pioneering individuals at the forefront of science and business.   A country once best known as a low-cost manufacturing destination for ‘me-too’ copycat medicines now accounts for over 28 percent of the global drug development pipeline. Western companies approaching patent cliffs…

China With nearly half of Chinese adults now suffering from myopia and age-related eye conditions on the rise, China is on the brink of an ophthalmology boom — a market set to more than double by 2031. While global players like Santen have taken an early lead, a new wave of…

China A summary of top stories from China’s pharma industry: Sciwind Biosciences presents promising trial data for its obesity contender; Simcere reaches approval for its Idorsia-partnered insomnia therapy; AstraZeneca inks AI-enabled research deal with CSPC Pharmaceuticals, and the FDA blocks clinical trials that export American’s cells to China. Sciwind’s GLP‑1 data…

China As a result of its ageing demographic, China has seen a sharp rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The country’s AD patients over 60 already total some ten million and as the population ages, that number is expected to climb. A new report from Selesta looks at the country’s current standards…

APAC This week’s Asia healthcare and pharma roundup from PharmaBoardroom content partner Selesta covers China’s USD 36.2bn in outbound licensing agreements, Henlius & EssexBio meeting Phase III endpoints, Organon acquiring US rights of tocilizumab biosimilar from Biogen, GE Healthcare’s acquisition of Japan’s Nihon Medi-Physics, Wuxi Biologics’ disposal of vaccine facility to…

APAC This week’s Asia healthcare and pharma roundup from PharmaBoardroom content partner Selesta covers the AACR 2025 ADC pipeline list from China, Puhe out-licensing global rights of a PRMT5 inhibitor to Bayer, AbbVie accusing Genmab of ADC trade secret theft on ADC technology used by ProfoundBio, and Singapore’s A*STAR investing in…

China 2024 was another groundbreaking year for Chinese medicine approvals. Writing in the March 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Juan Valencia S. and Angel Shao of PharmCube explain how and why.   Driven by drugmakers’ growing interest in accessing the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market, China has recently seen a…

China Illumina has been swept into the trade conflict between the US and China. After the Trump administration declared a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods in February, Beijing retaliated by blacklisting the American gene sequencing giant. But beyond the implications for the company, as the trade conflict continues to rage…