49 h. ago China’s Innovent Strikes Cancer Drug Deal With Takeda for Up to $11.4 Billion

China’s Innovent Strikes Cancer Drug Deal With Takeda for Up to $11.4 Billion  The Wall Street Journal

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52 h. ago Takeda Inks Deal With China’s Innovent to Develop Cancer Drugs

Takeda Inks Deal With China’s Innovent to Develop Cancer Drugs  Bloomberg

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3 d. ago China’s Akeso gets share boost as data shows cancer drug’s benefits

Shares of Chinese drug firm Akeso – likened by some Western media outlets to artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek – rose after the company unveiled clinical-trial data showing that its lung-cancer drug outperformed a highly effective existing treatment. The data showed that ivonescimab had “a decisive and strong positive outcome with both significant and clinically meaningful benefits”, Akeso said in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange on Monday. The drug, used along with...

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7 d. ago Hansoh and Leads Biolabs clinch US$2.5 billion in global drug licensing deals

Two Chinese drug developers have signed licensing deals that could yield as much as US$2.5 billion in performance-based payments, underscoring growing international confidence in China’s life sciences sector. Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group has agreed to license global rights – excluding mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan – to develop and market a colon cancer drug candidate to F Hoffmann-La Roche, a unit of Swiss-based biotech giant Roche. Hansoh, a major psychotropic and cancer drugs...

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7 d. ago ‘We can have TikTok. Why can’t we have drugs?’: Nkarta CEO Hastings warns against China biotech penalties

‘We can have TikTok. Why can’t we have drugs?’: Nkarta CEO Hastings warns against China biotech penalties  Fierce Biotech

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9 d. ago China’s drugs offer lifeline for global pharma as it peers over the patent cliff

China’s drugs offer lifeline for global pharma as it peers over the patent cliff  Yahoo Finance

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1 week ago China, US and Thailand seize record meth haul near disputed South China Sea reef

China, working with the United States and Thailand, has seized a record haul of illegal drugs near a disputed South China Sea reef, state media said on Friday. The Chinese anti-drug agency and the China Coast Guard, acting on a tip-off from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Royal Thai Police, intercepted the vessel Ji Sheng around 130 nautical miles southwest of the Scarborough Shoal, known as Huangyan Island in China, the People’s Daily reported. The operation was on the...

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2 w. ago Expedition Therapeutics, a biotech company scouring China for drug candidates, raises $165 million

Expedition Therapeutics, a biotech company scouring China for drug candidates, raises $165 million  statnews.com

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2 w. ago Zenas Bio inks potential $2 billion licensing deal with China's InnoCare for autoimmune drug

Zenas Bio inks potential $2 billion licensing deal with China's InnoCare for autoimmune drug  Reuters

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2 w. ago Zenas looks to China to stock pipeline with 3 more immune drugs

Zenas looks to China to stock pipeline with 3 more immune drugs  BioPharma Dive

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2 w. ago Import Product Specifications And Drug Registration Testing For China

Import Product Specifications And Drug Registration Testing For China  Bioprocess Online

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2 w. ago Growth of China's innovative drug market reflects global reach

Growth of China's innovative drug market reflects global reach  news.cgtn.com

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3 w. ago US plan seeks to shift drug supply from China to Middle East

US plan seeks to shift drug supply from China to Middle East  JNS.org

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3 w. ago China Open 2025: How Iga Swiatek’s Drug Ban Puts No. 1 Within Reach

China Open 2025: How Iga Swiatek’s Drug Ban Puts No. 1 Within Reach  Forbes

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3 w. ago Trump’s tariffs on imported drugs ‘not a big concern’ for China’s pharma firms

US President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs targeting imported branded pharmaceutical products would “barely dent” the operations of major Chinese drug makers, according to analysts. The new 100 per cent tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product would apply to all imports, according to Trump’s post on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday. Exemptions, however, would cover firms that have already broken ground on building a manufacturing plant in the US. Drugs...

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4 w. ago Watch Trump's New Tariff Targets: Patented Drugs, Kitchen Cabinets | The China Show 9/26/2025

Watch Trump's New Tariff Targets: Patented Drugs, Kitchen Cabinets | The China Show 9/26/2025  Bloomberg.com

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4 w. ago Pfizer’s Metsera acquisition to spur Chinese search for new weight drugs

American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s up to US$7.3 billion acquisition of next-generation weight loss drugs developer Metsera will encourage more research spending on innovative products in China but is unlikely to draw new players into the fray, according to analysts. The acquisition of the US company, together with other deals by global pharmaceutical firms, would encourage companies already developing obesity drugs – including those in China – to continue their investments, said the...

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