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UK Although biotech financing in the UK took a hit last year in large part thanks to uncertainty around Brexit, 2019 was still the British industry’s third-best year on record.   The UK’s exit from the European Union looms large over all British industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotech. Unsurprisingly, therefore, UK…

China Dr Yuguang Wang, CEO of Maxinovel Pharmaceuticals, recaps his three decades of industry experience across Big Pharma, biotech and CRO organizations in China and the US, his motivation to establish Maxinovel Pharmaceuticals as a global, semi-virtual biotech, and their mission to develop a pipeline of orally-active one-pill combination of immuno-oncology…

China 2019 was a bumper year for biotech companies listing on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx), with nine pre-revenue biotechs and eight revenue-generating biotech and biotech-related firms, mostly originating from mainland China, listing last year. The average amount of funds raised by these was a whopping four to five times higher…

Canada John L. Wallace of Antibe Therapeutics highlights how Canadian innovation stands to put the country at the forefront of the next wave of global biopharmaceutical R&D. BlueRock Therapeutics, a promising North American start-up with a new Parkinson’s disease drug, was recently sold to Germany’s Bayer at a $1 billion valuation.…

China PharmaBoardroom sat down with more than 25 biotech CEOs in China in 2019. We analyzed the contents of the interviews and found the following recurring themes at the top of these executives’ minds.   “Patients” One recurring theme throughout the interviews was a stated commitment to patients. Many of these…

China Cancer is one of the world’s leading causes of death and in China, the globe’s most populous country, it is an ever-increasing concern. In 2018, there were approximately 4.3 million new cases of cancer in China, and this number is expected to increase to 6.7 million by 2040. Below, we…

China Speaking in May 2019, Dr Dajun Yang, chairman, executive director and CEO of Ascentage Pharma, shares the company’s top highlights over the past decade; their strong product pipeline and portfolio of innovative therapeutics focusing on protein-protein interactions (PPIs); and their global strategy to become an international, world-class biotech company.  …

Czech Republic Bioinova’s CEO and managing director MUDr Peter Bauer PhD introduces the biotech company’s shift from a university spin-off to a privately held entity. Whilst describing the powerful properties of stem cells for autologous and allogeneic transplantation, which they base their Research and Development on, Bauer evaluates the commitment that comes…

China Mark Lotter, founder and CEO of Nuance Biotech, explains why he decided to return to the China market to establish Nuance Biotech, two years after his retirement. He also shares the rationale behind their three-track business model, their exciting portfolio of products, and their ambitions to expand into the Asia-Pacific…

Sweden Sweden is fast staking a claim as one of Europe’s premier biotech hotspots thanks to a holistic approach to research projects, a strong institutional ecosystem, and increasingly easy access to funding at the early stages of biotech companies’ development.   Collaboration “The Swedish innovation powerhouse is propelled by our excellent…

Czech Republic CzechBio’s Serhiy Forostyak, MD, Ph.D, shares the importance of a strong platform where all actors of the biotech landscape can develop their ideas and establish valuable partnerships on a national and international level. Moreover, he delves into the Czech history of medical innovation and the country’s potential to strive among…

China Dr CJ Wang, CEO of Frontier Biotech, shares his exciting ten-year journey with Frontier and their distinctive focus on HIV drug development, with their flagship compound, Aikening®, launched in China in 2018; their ongoing efforts to develop more novel therapeutics; their ambitious internationalization strategy to bring their therapies to patients…