Amid stricter regulatory reviews of applications for IPOs across all sectors, such offerings in biotech have been in hiatus on the Chinese mainland in 2024 to date. Meanwhile, three bioventures raised a combined $217.8m as they floated on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the first half.
Initial public offerings (IPOs) for innovative, drug-focused biotechs have remained elusive in the Chinese mainland well into the second half of 2024, since the country’s top securities regulator put a lid on go-public procedures by applicants across all industry sectors in March.
Meanwhile, three bioventures raised a combined HKD1.7bn ($217.8m) through IPOs in the first half in Hong Kong SAR. While the...
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Already one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical markets, China has tremendous growth potential, but significant policy and market changes are rocking the basis of competition. Multinational biopharma corporations cannot succeed in this new environment unless they fundamentally reinvent their business models to adapt to sweeping change.
Pipelines in bioconjugates continue to develop, from ADCs to XDCs, with radionuclide drug conjugates (RDCs) and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) leading the expansion.
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The nod will help unlock a national market for the partners’ Dupert (fulzerasib) in which roughly 50,000 people are expected to be newly diagnosed with lung cancer harboring the KRAS G12C mutation in 2025. Meanwhile, two other homegrown rivals are also closing in on marketing clearances in China.
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