Akeso's 2024 Results: Strengthening Global Competitiveness and Transforming the Treatment Landscape with Bispecific Antibodies
Key Highlights: * Global first "immuno + anti-vascular" bispecific antibody approved: ivonescimab for EGFR-TKI resistant nsq-NSCLC. Phase III HARMONi study topline data expected mid-2025 (FDA FTD). * ivonescimab outperforms pembrolizumab in Phase III study for first-line PD-L1+ NSCLC: mPFS H...
Akeso's Cadonilimab Combined with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy Demonstrates Promising Efficacy in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Data Published at the 2025 SGO Annual Meeting
HONG KONG, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso Inc. (9926.HK) presented promising phase III safety run-in results from the COMPASSION-18/AK104-305 study, at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO). The study evaluates the global first-in-class PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific ...
Akeso's Penpulimab Receives NMPA Approval for First-Line Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Cancer
HONG KONG, March 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso Inc. (9926.HK) announced that its innovative, self-developed anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody, penpulimab, has been officially approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic nasop...
Akeso Announces The Publication of Its Phase III Clinical Trial Results for Ivonescimab in Head-to-Head Comparison with Pembrolizumab in The Lancet
HONG KONG, March 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company")is excited to announce that the groundbreaking results of the Phase III clinical study (HARMONi-2/AK112-303) of its first-in-class PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody, ivonescimab, as a monotherapy compared to pemb...
Akeso Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in The Phase III Clinical Trial of Cadonilimab for Adjuvant Treatment of High-Risk Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma
HONG KONG, March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926. HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the completion of patient enrollment for its Phase III registrational clinical trial (COMPASSION-22/AK104-306) evaluating cadonilimab, the world's first PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibod...
Akeso Announces First ADC Drug Clinical Trial, Marking a New Era for "IO 2.0 + ADC" Strategy
HONG KONG, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) announced the first patient has been enrolled in the Phase I clinical trial of AK138 D1 for the treatment of advanced malignancies inAustralia. AK138D1, a self-developed and differentiated HER3-targeting ADC (antibody-drug conjugate)...
Akeso Highlights Collaboration Between Its Partner Summit Therapeutics and Pfizer to Explore Ivonescimab in Combination with Pfizer's ADCs
HONG KONG, Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") today announced that its partner on ivonescimab, Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) has entered into a clinical trial collaboration with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) to evaluate ivonescimab, a novel, investi...
Akeso Enrolled First Patient in The Phase III Clinical Trial of Ivonescimab in Combination with Chemotherapy for First-Line Treatment of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
HONG KONG, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") today announced the company has successfully enrolled the first patient in its multicenter, randomized, double-blind Phase III clinical trial of ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy for first-line tr...
Akeso Announces IND Acceptance for AK139, a Bispecific Antibody Targeting IL-4Rα and ST2 for Respiratory and Skin Diseases
HONG KONG, Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926. HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the acceptance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for AK139, a bispecific antibody targeting IL-4Rα and ST2...
Akeso Announced Enrollment of First Patient in Phase 3 Trial of Cadonilimab for Consolidation Therapy After Concurrent or Sequential Chemoradiotherapy in NSCLC
HONG KONG, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926. HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") announced the recent completion of the first patient enrollment in the Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, multicenter clinical trial (COMPASSION-30/AK104-309) for its independently developed PD-1/CTLA-4 bis...
Akeso Announces the Completion of Patient Enrollment in the Phase III Clinical Trial (HARMONi-6) Comparing Ivonescimab and Tislelizumab for First-Line Treatment of Sq-NSCLC
HONG KONG, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is excited to announce the completion of patient enrollment in the global Phase III clinical trial (HARMONi-6/AK112-306) evaluating ivonescimab, its independently developed PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibody. Thi...
Akeso's Gumokimab Monoclonal Antibody (IL-17) New Drug Application for the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Psoriasis Accepted by NMPA
HONG KONG, Jan. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the New Drug Application (NDA) of its internally-developed IL-17-targeting monoclonal antibody gumokimab (AK111) has been accepted by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the N...
Cadonilimab (PD-1/CTLA-4) Phase III Data for First Line Treatment of Advanced Gastric Cancer Published in Nature Medicine
HONG KONG, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company")is excited to announce that the prestigious medical journal Nature Medicine published the results of the company's independently developed PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody cadonilimab in combination with oxali...
Akeso Received Payment for the Development Collaboration on Tagitanlimab
HONG KONG, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 22, 2025, Akeso Inc. (9926.HK) announced that it had received payment from Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical Research Institute Co., Ltd. ("Sichuan Kelun") for their collaboration on the development of tagitanlimab, an innovative humanized monoclona...
Akeso to Share Global Strategy for New Drug Development at the 43rd J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
HONG KONG and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, taking place onJanuary 13, 2025, in San Francisco, California. The company's founder, ...
Akeso's Cadonilimab (PD-1/CTLA-4 Bispecific Antibody) Combination Therapy for PD-(L)1 Resistant NSCLC Showcased in Oral Presentation at 2024 Asian Conference on Lung Cancer
HONG KONG, Dec. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") announced the results from a prospective, open-label, single-arm, multi-center phase Ib/II clinical study (AK104-IIT-018) of cadonilimab (PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody) in patients with advanced or metastat...
Akeso to Present at Citi 2024 Global Healthcare Conference and the 7th Annual Evercore HealthCONx Conference
HONG KONG, Nov. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming 7th Annual Evercore HealthCONx Conference and Citi 2024 Global Healthcare Conference, both taking place inMiami. Akeso will participate in a firesid...
Akeso Announced the Inclusion in China's National Reimbursement Drug List of Cadonilimab and Ivonescimab
HONG KONG, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926. HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that two of its independently developed, globally pioneering bispecific antibody drugs—cadonilimab Injection (PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody) and ivonescimab Injection (PD-1/VEGF bi...
Akeso's Penpulimab Combination Therapy for First-line Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Accepted by NMPA
HONG KONG, Nov. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China has accepted its supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for penpulimab, a differentiated PD-1 monoclonal antibody, in combination...
Akeso Biopharma to Attend Jefferies London Healthcare Conference and Morgan Stanley 23rd Asia Pacific Summit
HONG KONG, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso Biopharma (9926. HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce thatDr. Michelle Xia, the company's founder, chairwoman, president, and CEO, will attend Morgan Stanley's 23rd Asia Pacific Summit.Dr. Bing C. Wang, the company's chief financial ...