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Everest Medicines Announces that Licensing Partner LIB Therapeutics has Received U.S. FDA Approval of LEROCHOL™ (lerodalcibep-liga) for Adults with Elevated LDL Cholesterol
SHANGHAI, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest", or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, and commercialization of innovative therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...
111, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2025 Unaudited Financial Results
* Transition from An Asset-Heavy Business Model to An Asset-Light Business Model * Achieved Quarterly Non-GAAP Net Profitability * Maintained Non-GAAP Operational Profitability for Three Consecutive Quarters * Achieved Quarterly Positive Operating Cash Flow SHANGHAI, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswi...
Antengene Expands XPOVIO® Indications in Malaysia with Approval in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative, commercial-stage global biotech company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and/or best-in-class medicines for autoimmune dis...
Jiaying Pharmaceutical: A New Pathway for the Industrialization of Century-Old Hakka Medicine
HONG KONG, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Meizhou in Guangdong, known as the "World Capital of the Hakka", welcomed a globally watched event, the Seventh World Hakka Entrepreneurs Convention. At this gathering that drew the attention of Hakka entrepreneurs worldwide, Guangdong Jiaying Ph...
Allink Biotherapeutics Completes $47M Extension Rounds of Series A to Accelerate Clinical Programs and Novel Platforms Development
* The company secured $47 million through extension rounds of Series A led by Legend Capital and Meituan Long-Z Investment with strong backing from both new investors and existing supporters * Proceeds to advance two differentiated and highly competitive ADC programs in global Phase I trials ...
Breakthrough Progress: METiS TechBio Publishes Consecutive Research Findings in Nature Communications and the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
BEIJING, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- METiS TechBio ("METiS") today announced that two of its oncology pipeline candidates,MTS-105 and MTS-107, have been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals,Nature Communications and theJournal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (JITC), representin...
Breaking the "Untreatable": Biostar Pharma's UTD1 Achieves First Patient Dosing in U.S. for Pivotal Clinical Trial for Breast Cancer Brain Metastases
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Biostar Pharma, Inc., the U.S. wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Biostar Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (Stock Cod e: 2563.HK), today announced that the first patient has been dosed for one of its key oversea clinical studies: the U.S. pivotal clinical stud...
HitGen Submits Commitment Letter to Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
CHENGDU, China, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- HitGen Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "HitGen", SSE: 688222.SH), announced it has officially submitted its commitment letter to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). HitGen has pledged to set near-term science-based targets within the next tw...
Rona Therapeutics Advances INHBE siRNA Into Phase 1 Clinical Development
SHANGHAI and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rona Therapeutics, a clinical-stage RNAi company, today announced the recent completion of Cohort 1 dosing in its Phase 1 first-in-human clinical study of RN3161, an investigational GalNAc-conjugated siRNA targeting INHBE for obesit...
Minghui Pharmaceutical Announces FDA clearance of IND to Initiate Global Phase Ⅲ Trials of MHB018A, a Subcutaneous Single-Domain IGF-1R Antibody, in Thyroid Eye Disease
SHANGHAI and HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Minghui Pharmaceutical, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative medicines in immunology and oncology, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New D...
Ascletis Announces Positive Topline Results from U.S. Phase I Study of ASC50, a Potential Best-in-Class Oral Small Molecule IL-17 Inhibitor
- The elimination half-life of ASC50 after a single oral dose was 43, 89, 91, 87, 104, and 85 hours for 10 mg, 30 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 400 mg, and 600 mg, respectively, supporting once-daily or potentially once-weekly oral dosing. - ASC50 had strong target engagement after a single oral dose, in...
DMX-200 ACTION3 PHASE 3 TRIAL COMPLETES RECRUITMENT
* Recruitment successfully completed in Dimerix' ACTION3 Phase 3 clinical trial[1], which has recruited and dosed its target 286th adult patient * The ACTION3 Phase 3 trial explores the efficacy and safety of DMX-200 in FSGS patients when dosed in combination with standard-of-care blood pressu...
Viva Biotech's invested and incubated company, Arthrosi, has entered into an acquisition agreement with Sobi for a total transaction value of up to US$1.5 billion.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (STO: SOBI) recently announced that it has entered into an acquisition agreement with Arthrosi Therapeutics, Inc., which was invested in and incubated by Viva Biotech Holdings. Under the terms of the agreement, Sobi will pay up ...
Everest Medicines Announces 2030 Strategy and Increase in Shareholdings by Directors and Substantial Shareholder
SHANGHAI, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK, "Everest", or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, clinical development, manufacturing, and commercialization of innovative therapeutics, today announced the launch of its 2030 Strategy, out...
/DISREGARD RELEASE: Ractigen Therapeutics/
We are advised by Ractigen Therapeutics that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, Ractigen Therapeutics Doses First Patient in IIT Study of RAG-18 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, issued7:30AM 12-Dec-2025 over PR Newswire, as the release contained erroneous information...
Strategic Partnership | Sanyou Bio and KanryBio Forge Partnership to Co-Develop Key Reagents and Products for Biomarker Assay Kits
SHANGHAI, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 10, 2025, Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Sanyou Bio") and Wenzhou KanryBio Biotech Co., Ltd. ("KanryBio")announced a strategic collaboration agreement. The partnership will focus on the joint development of key reagents and p...
Ractigen Therapeutics Doses First Patient in IIT Study of RAG-18, a Potential Game-Changing saRNA Therapeutic for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
NANTONG, China, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ractigen Therapeutics, a pioneering developer of small activating RNA (saRNA) therapeutics, today announced the successful dosing of the first patient in its investigator-initiated trial (IIT) of RAG-18 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH...
Insilico Medicine and TaiGen Achieves License Agreement to Develop and Commercialize AI-driven PHD Inhibitor for Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
* Insilico Medicine has licensed TaiGen Biotechnology exclusive rights in the Greater China area to develop, commercialize, and sub-license ISM4808, an AI-driven potential best-in-class oral PHD inhibitor with IND clearance granted in 2023. * The partnership combines Insilico's generative AI ...
Cadonilimab (PD-1/CTLA-4) Receives FDA Clearance for Global Phase III First-Line Gastric Cancer Trial Versus Nivolumab
HONG KONG, Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") announced FDA approval to initiate COMPASSION-37/AK104-311 trial, a global multicenter Phase III trial in gastric cancer evaluating cadonilimab, a first-in-class PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody. The study wi...
Mazdutide Demonstrates Significant Weight Loss and Metabolic Benefits in Phase 1b Clinical Trial in Chinese Adolescents with Obesity
* After 12 weeks of treatment, the 4 mg and 6 mg mazdutide groups achieved reductions in BMI from baseline of 8.78% and 10.99%, respectively, with corresponding body weight reductions of 7.72 kg and 8.65 kg. These results were significantly superior to those observed in the placebo group (BMI r...
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