Cambridge, UK-headquartered drug development technology and services provider Abzena plc, has signed a licensing agreement and a master services and clinical supply agreement with Taipei, Taiwan biotech OBI Pharma (TPEx: 4174) for its novel site-specific ThioBridge™ antibody drug conjugate (ADC) linker technology to develop OBI’s proprietary ADC, OBI-999 and a series of further ADCs as potential treatments for cancer.
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BioBusiness Asia, the two-day business-themed life sciences conference held annually in Taipei, Taiwan, recently concluded. A part of the week-long BioTaiwan festival of life science-focused events, the conference this year had a wide range of session themes with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies such as precision medicine, next generation sequencing, artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology, cancer immunotherapy, and digital health.
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AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG of Vienna, Austria (AOP Orphan) and Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered PharmaEssentia Corporation (TPEx: 6446) together announced the latest results from three clinical studies on Ropeginterferon alfa-2b for patients with Polycythemia Vera (PV) presented at the 22nd Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Madrid, Spain.
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Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered Lumosa Therapeutics Co., Ltd. has announced that its lead drug candidate for acute ischemic stroke, LT3001, has received approval from the US FDA to begin Phase I clinical trials.
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Taipei, Taiwan-headquartered OBI Pharma, Inc., (TPex: 4174), announced last week that an agreement with Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD) had been made to acquire TH-3424, a first-in-class novel small-molecule prodrug that selectively targets cancers overexpressing the enzyme aldo-keto reductase 1c3 (AKR1C3).
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In an interview with finance website Deal Street Asia, Singapore-headquartered drug development firm Asian Pharmaceuticals’ CEO Dr Carl Firth discussed why he took the company public in Taiwan and not Singapore, Europe or the US.
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