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China Founded in 2009 by CEO Dr XU Ting, Alphamab started its journey as a protein engineering company with the ultimate dream of becoming, as many Chinese biotechs aspire, a global biotech company producing world-class innovations. To learn more about some of China’s most innovative and inspirational biotech stories, download our…

Saudi Arabia The top 10 pharma companies in Saudi Arabia ranked by sales value in USD millions MAT Q1 2019. These top 10 corporations account for 50 percent of total sales and are a mix of local companies and MNCs   Made with Visme Infographic Maker

Roundup A roundup of the latest news from Chinese pharma, including Big Pharma players losing out in the latest round of domestic procurement bidding, updates on Sinopharm’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, biotech funding news, and Bayer and Hua Medicine’s diabetes collaboration.   Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck among Big Pharma losers in China’s…

China The only company in our Summer 2020 edition of InFocus: 5 Biotechs to Watch in China to be helmed by a non-founding CEO, I-Mab Biopharma has advanced since its establishment in 2017 at a pace that would seem to outpace the fast-moving China biotech industry.   [Post-merger], I-Mab became an…

China Dr Zaiqi Wang, chairman and CEO of Chinese oncology biotech InxMed, highlights the vital importance of combination therapies in cancer treatment, assesses the level of innovation in China, and outlines his strategy for the company moving forward.   We believe, to make a meaningful impact on treatment, it is necessary…

Hong Kong It has been just over two years since the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) revised its listing rules to allow pre-revenue biotechs to IPO as long as they met certain criteria. In May 2020, during the first in a series of webinars organized by the HKEX to celebrate the second…

China Probably one of the most recognisable Chinese biotechs globally, Zai Lab may only be seven years old but the company has progressed rapidly in becoming a NASDAQ-listed company with not just one but two commercial assets through a stunningly effective strategy of forming productive collaborations with the most innovative biopharma…

Hong Kong On 30 April 2018, Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s (HKEX’s) introduced a number of reforms to allow and support the listing of pre-profit biotech companies. Nearly 2.5 years later, 20 companies have seized the opportunity to IPO under the new Chapter 18A, raising a total of over HKD 34.92 billion (USD…

Japan Toshio Fujimoto, MBA, MD of Japan’s Shonan Health Innovation Park explores new ways of virtual collaboration that make our lives easier while enabling us to maintain a culture of innovation and growth.   Are social distancing requirements causing the life science industry to return to an inward-looking culture of secrecy?…

Diagnostics Young-Shik Cho, chairman of SD Biosensor, recounts his journey leading diagnostics companies and expanding their offerings through R&D.  Cho also compares the challenges of the Chinese market with the potential in the Indian market and offers his opinion on the role of diagnostics in post Covid-19 healthcare.   There is…

Japan Yoji Yuki, CEO of Japanese regenerative medicine company UniBio, recalls the roots behind the venture and its plant-based technology. He also sets out his ambitions to expand and develop greater manufacturing capabilities in order to meet UniBio’s future ambitions.   What is most important to stress is that there are…

Medtech Saudi Arabia is seeing an increased demand for more innovative medical devices and a greater awareness of the myriad ways that medical technology can be used for screening illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. Stakeholders from three multinational medtech firms commented on their strategies for growth in this…