Chinese ADC, RNA Therapy Developers Lead May/June Fundraising

Emerging companies including Bliss Biopharmaceutical, Coherent Biopharma and WestGene Biopharma lifted China biotech funding from May to mid-June.

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Antibody-drug conjugates and RNA therapies come to fore as promising assets in China • Source: Shutterstock

Although financings of over $100m have become something of a rarity for Chinese biotechs, venture capital and private equity firms, as well as pharma companies, have recently made sizeable cash injections into the hot segments of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and RNA therapies.

ADC developer Bliss Biopharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd revealed on 6 June its Japanese partner Eisai Co., Ltd. had doubled down on its Halaven (eribulin)-loaded candidates by completing a...

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