China Established in 2017 as a spin-off from Lee’s Pharmaceutical, Zhaoke Ophthalmology is aiming to be a global player in the ophthalmology field, building on its strong footprint in China and Asia to eventually establish operations in the US and Europe. President and Chief Scientific Officer Lau Lit Fui outlines how…
Taiwan In just 35 years, Taiwan has gone from having no biotechs on the TAIEX and Taiwan OTC stock exchanges to 124 listed firms with a combined market capitalization of more than USD 30 billion by 2020, as the below chart from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows. In 2019,…
Hong Kong After a record year of new biotech listings in 2021, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has seen a significant drop-off in the first eight months of 2022. The exchange went from 20 new listings last year to only four this year, with just three full months of 2022 remaining…
Hong Kong Having consolidated its position as Asia’s largest biotech fundraising hub – and the world’s second largest – the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) listed a total of 34 biotech and healthcare companies in 2021. “[Last year’s listings] made us rank first by number of deals and second by the amount…
UK Oxford Nanopore hogged the UK biotech headlines in 2021, raising GBP 195 million in a single venture capital round – the year’s largest – and scoring a GBP 350 million listing on the London Stock Exchange, according to new data from the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) and Clarivate. See below…
Hong Kong Despite a “turbulent macro backdrop,” the strong momentum in Hong Kong’s IPO market has continued in the third quarter of 2021, driven to a large extent by new biotech listings. “Biotechnology is today the fastest-growing IPO market segment,” says Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of HKEX, one of the world’s major…
Turkey Few Turkish companies are experiencing such a transformational moment as GEN. Just in 2021, the Ankara-based organization made its public debut at the Istanbul Stock Exchange and signed an exclusive collaboration agreement with a Dutch biotech company for the development and commercialization of a therapy against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative…
China The latest reporting on China biopharma dealmaking from MSQ Ventures, including the Top 10 biotech in-licensing deals in H1 2021, the Top 5 out-licensing deals, and Top 10 IPOs. Made with Visme Infographic Maker Made with Visme Infographic Maker Made with Visme Infographic Maker
Hong Kong With three years having passed since the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX)’s decision to allow pre-revenue biotechs to IPO, we look back at a stellar 2020 for the Exchange and what the recent appointment of a new CEO – the first foreign appointment in its history – means for the…
China Hot on the heels of a USD 120 million fundraising round, Shanghai-based EpimAb Biotherapeutics is now looking towards a 2022 IPO with the aim of becoming a globally competitive player in the bispecific antibody field. The Series C financing round means that the company has raised over USD 220…
Singapore ASLAN Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage immunology-focused biopharmaceutical company. CEO Dr Carl Firth reveals why the company has shifted its focus from oncology to autoimmune diseases. He explains why their lead asset has the potential to compete with Sanofi’s blockbuster Dupixent and why ASLAN decided to delist from the Taiwan Stock…
China 2020 has been eventful – perhaps the understatement of the year – but despite the novel coronavirus being discovered in China around the beginning of 2020, the country bounced back from the COVID-19 outbreaks by mid-year to deliver the hottest year for Chinese biopharma yet. The Chinese biopharma sector…
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