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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 A roundup of some of the latest news from Chinese pharma including CanSino’s Gates Foundation grant for polio vaccine R&D; Merck’s deal with Jiangsu Hengrui; the license agreement between GSK and Hansoh Pharma, and the China-based starteup Biotheus’ oncology partnership with BioNTech.   Chinese and Foreign Pharmaceutical, Medical Device Firms…

Roundup Recent news from the cross-border deals and partnerships being struck by Chinese pharmacos, including I-Mab’s USD 2 billion immuno-oncology collaboration with AbbVie, Jiangsu Hengrui’s latest deal with US biotech Dyadic, and Fosun Pharma’s role in the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.   AbbVie and Chinese biotech I-Mab Enter Into Global Strategic Partnership…

China Dr Irwin Wang, CEO of Reistone Biopharma, shares her motivations behind the establishment of the company, their extremely productive collaboration with Jiangsu Hengrui (China’s largest pharma company by market capitalization), and their exciting international clinical development strategy for their three assets.   I realized that if I wanted to establish…

China Following Hansoh’s recent IPO in Hong Kong, CEO Zhong Huijuan and husband Sun Piaoyang, CEO of Jiangsu Hengrui, are now officially the wealthiest couple in China. Sun, a former high school chemistry teacher, and Zhong, a former factory technician, overtake Robin Li, founder of Chinese search engine giant Baidu, and…