Xu is passionate about understanding information and knowledge related to biopharma industry. She is bilingual in Mandarin and English. Prior to this, Xu worked as a medical writer and wrote publications based on data from clinical trials for a wide range of therapeutic areas for global pharmaceutical companies. She holds a Master degree in Medical Pharmaceutical Science from University of Groningen and a PhD degree in Biomedical Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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For 127 products in the annual price negotiations for inclusion in China's National Reimbursement Drug List, the "success rate" this year was 88.19%, the highest ever, although the extent of related price cuts was not revealed.
InnoCare talks to Scrip about the plans and potential benefits for its BCL2 inhibitor mesutoclax in mantle cell lymphoma and beyond as it presents new results at ASH, as BeOne’s contender sonrontoclax also moves ahead in the same indication.
Among products granted conditional approval in China over the 2020-22 period, the completion of confirmatory trials and conversion to traditional approval took up to a median of five years, according to a Pink Sheet analysis.
Plus deals involving Adagene/Third Arc, Celltrion/TRiOar, Celltrion/Kaigene, ImmunoScape/Cue, Laekna/Qilu, Lilly/ABL, Lilly/Sanegene, Sanyou/ZJ Bio-Tech, TransThera/Neurocrine, Qyuns/Roche, Otsuka/4D Molecular, IASO/GC Cell, Chugai/Renalys, Henlius/Forlong and Teijin/Elevara.
Ascletis’ peptide co-formulation of ASC36 and ASC35 outperformed the co-formulation of Eli Lilly’s eloralintide and tirzepatide as well as eloralintide alone in a rat model, boosting the China-based firm’s confidence in upcoming clinical outcomes.
China’s NHSA expects to release the first list of innovative drugs to be covered by commercial health insurance in early December, but implementation, payment collection and data sharing are expected to be among the main hurdles ahead.