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Several major South Korean pharma firms benefited from solid sales of new drugs, and in some cases M&A deals, outside the country, although overall growth was generally weak. Meanwhile, a long-running leadership dispute at Hanmi has been resolved.
In an ongoing effort to accelerate the commercialization of select innovative drugs and medical devices, Korea’s MFDS is launching a new program for certain products that will receive regular regulatory consultations until they reach the approval stage.
The CEO of Korean biotech Bridge Biotherapeutics shares progress and strategy for its lead candidate for IPF, along with thoughts on what Trump and the ongoing Korean political crisis might mean for the industry.
At a new year’s briefing, KPBMA's president talked about what may be ahead for Korean biopharma firms in a challenging and uncertain environment amid the start of the second Trump Administration and ongoing political turmoil in Korea.
Rimqarto is poised to become the first homegrown South Korean CAR-T therapy to gain domestic approval and looks set to provide new local competition to Kymriah.
Plus deals involving Synaffix/Mitsubishi Tanabe/Boehringer Ingelheim, Newron/Myung In, Vividion/Tavros, Novo Nordisk/Variant, Vertex/Orna, Sanofi/Alloy and more.