Emerging Company In An Emerging Market: CrownBio Transforms From CRO To Biotech

In a golden age of biotech in China, Crown is transforming from a biologics development service company to a mixed biotech through a planned IPO in Taiwan. Backed by its world-largest patient-derived xenograft models bank, the company is discovering oncology compounds.

PharmAsia News brings you a series of profiles on small companies in China. In the last profile, Shenogen Pharma Group Chief Business Officer Jun Bao talked about discovery and development of small molecule and biologic drugs targeted at a novel estrogen receptor variant ([A#28130929003]).

SHANGHAI – Santa Clara, California-based Crown Bioscience, Inc., which has R&D operations in Beijing and Taicang, is transforming itself into...

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