Frontera Therapeutics Inc. raised $160 million in a series B funding round to develop its lead gene therapy product candidate for retinal disease, FT-001, for which INDs have been approved by the U.S. FDA and China NMPA.
Frontera Therapeutics Inc. raised $160 million in a series B funding round to develop its lead gene therapy product candidate for retinal disease, FT-001, for which INDs have been approved by the U.S. FDA and China NMPA.
Convalife Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. acquired global rights to develop and commercialize a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) β/δ inhibitor from Karus Therapeutics Ltd.
Precision Autoimmune Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has raised ¥140 million (US$21 million) in its first financing round to speed up its pipeline development and improve its drug development platform. Emerging Technology Partners LLC, Redhill Capital and CASI Pharmaceuticals Inc. participated in the round.
Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc. received the green light in China for its transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement (TPVR) system Venusp-Valve. It is a self-expanding TPVR product for the treatment of severe pulmonary regurgitation (≥3+) in patients after a congenital heart defects procedure with native right ventricular outflow tract.
Precision Autoimmune Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has raised ¥140 million (US$21 million) in its first financing round to speed up its pipeline development and improve its drug development platform. Emerging Technology Partners LLC, Redhill Capital and CASI Pharmaceuticals Inc. participated in the round.
Infervision Medical Technology Co. Ltd. received approval from China’s NMPA for its radiological computer-assisted triage and notification software device Inferread CT Stroke. This is the first class III approval that the firm obtained in the cerebro-cardiovascular field. Class III approvals are for high-risk medical devices.
Helixon Ltd. raised ¥500 million (US$75 million) in a series A round for its artificial intelligence (AI) drug development platform. The Beijing-based company is building a next-generation AI computing platform by combining it with self-developed high-throughput experimental technologies, aiming to provide drug developers with an intelligent system for molecular computation, simulation and design.
Beigene Ltd. has formed a partnership with Innorna Co. Ltd. to jointly develop messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutics. Shenzhen, China-based Innorna will get an undisclosed up-front payment and is also eligible to receive additional payments based on development, regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as tiered royalties. Beigene will maintain exclusive global rights to the mRNA candidates co-developed in the deal.
Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. plans to expand its androgen receptor inhibitor, rezvilutamide, to markets abroad after getting a thumbs up from China’s NMPA for treating metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer patients with high-volume disease burden.