BD pharma execs make pitches; VC money sits as valuations climb
31 May 2016
Snapping smartphone pictures of pharmaceutical company slides, entrepreneurs listened intently last week in a packed audience attending 15-minute presentations of business development executives looking for innovative products, not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but globally.
China gets ready for immunotherapy future despite uncertainty
31 May 2016
At the Chinabio Partnering Forum, a panel of leading Chinese biopharma founders and executives discussed the future of immuno-oncology in China to a packed room in Suzhou, a biotech hub a short distance from Shanghai. The speakers were cautiously optimistic about China’s future in this hot new category of cancer treatment, artfully skirting around direct mention of the government’s recent ban on immunotherapy following a scandal involving a patient who died after receiving DC-CIK treatment.
How Wellcome and Gates charities profit from helping biotech
31 May 2016
The Wellcome Trust medical charity is to profit from U.S. approval of a new diagnostic cancer test, the first commercial product funded by the organization since the sale of its pharmaceuticals business to Glaxo in 1995.
New incentives needed to develop antibiotics to fight superbugs
30 May 2016
Drugmakers are renewing efforts to develop medicines to fight emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but creating new classes of drugs on the scale needed is unlikely to happen without new financial incentives to make the effort worth the investment, companies and industry experts said.
China regulator to launch drug pricing probe in June
30 May 2016
China will carry out wide-ranging pricing inspections on drug firms, hospitals and procurement bodies from June 1, the country's top watchdog said on Friday, extending a tough cost-cutting campaign to reduce the price of healthcare.
MIT makes continuous manufacturing unit small enough to fit in a pharmacy
25 May 2016
More and more drugmakers are giving continuous manufacturing a try, seeing it as the future in small molecule drug production, in part, because the plants for the process are much smaller than those for batch processing. Now, scientists at MIT have a prototype of a continuous manufacturing device so small it might be used by pharmacies to produce their own generic drugs.
Biotechs jockey for gene therapy lead with hemophilia data ‘snapshots’
23 May 2016
Generally it takes a readout from a completed trial to gain any important insights into the potential of an experimental drug. Unless you’re in a field like gene therapy, where the responses of even tiny numbers of patients are used to grab the spotlight in a market that’s seemingly insatiable for news. Add in a horse race environment on the data front, with competitors looking to establish a clear lead in a hot field, and the rivalry heats up on a patient-by-patient basis.
Drugmakers eye volume growth as China cuts prices by up to 67 percent
23 May 2016
Chinese health authorities announced price cuts of up to two-thirds for three drugs on Friday in the latest move to reduce the cost of healthcare for patients in the world's second-biggest economy.
Life expectancy increased by 5 years since 2000, but health inequalities persist
23 May 2016
Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year’s “World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the SDGs”. Life expectancy increased by 5 years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reverse declines during the 1990s, when life expectancy fell in Africa because of the AIDS epidemic and in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Pipelines full of orphan drugs but more work to be done
23 May 2016
About 30 million Americans, roughly 10 percent of the population, has one of the 7,000 known rare diseases, defined as affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. And rare diseases unfortunately affect children disproportionately, making up half of all cases globally.
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