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China Assets · Parkinson’s Disease

¥84.2 Million, 84 Centers, $328 Million: Hengrui Took a Drug With No Story All the Way to Filing

HRG2010, Hengrui’s carbidopa/levodopa IR/ER capsule for Parkinson’s motor fluctuations, never made the company’s launch forecast or pipeline appendix — yet quietly finished Phase 3 across 84 centers and had its marketing application accepted on August 24, 2026.

September 26, 2026 15 min read Parkinson’s disease · Carbidopa/levodopa Read →
China Pharma Majors · Global Asset Review

SHR-1819 Files for Approval: The Sixth Ticket In

Hengrui’s anti-IL-4Rα antibody has just had its marketing application accepted, with both co-primary endpoints met in Phase 3. But five domestic rivals against the same target are already ahead of it — and the queue ahead holds at least four still under review.

September 26, 2026 20 min read Atopic dermatitis · IL-4Rα Read →
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Large Chinese Pharma21 articles

Adebrelimab: a PD-L1 that "doesn't rely on standing out on its own" — how Hengrui uses it to thicken its portfolioSep 26, 2026 · 17 min read · Hengrui · adebrelimab One Molecule, Two Names, Two DestiniesSep 26, 2026 · 21 min read · Hengrui · BHB-1893 US$32.5 million in cash, 7.42 million shares What did Hengrui actually keep in BHB-1893?Sep 26, 2026 · 30 min read · Hengrui · BHB-1893 CSPC's DP303c (enweiqutuozhumab): A commercialization test of "beating the comparator, only to face a stronger rival"Sep 26, 2026 · 20 min read · CSPC · DP303c HLX04-O: an ophthalmic bevacizumab that was "licensed out", Henlius's light move in the anti-VEGF red oceanSep 26, 2026 · 14 min read · Henlius · HLX04-O RMB 84.2 million, 84 sites, US$328 million: Hengrui took a drug with no story all the way to a marketing filingSep 26, 2026 · 24 min read · Hengrui · HRG2010 HRS-7535: when an oral weight-loss drug is packed into a “US shell”, what exactly did Hengrui sell?Sep 26, 2026 · 19 min read · Hengrui · HRS-7535 HRS-5635: Hengrui bets on the world’s largest hepatitis B market, but both its timing and its posture deserve scrutinySep 26, 2026 · 17 min read · Hengrui · HRS5635 IBI343: a gastric cancer ADC already “validated globally”, whose real test is its second tumor typeSep 26, 2026 · 16 min read · Innovent · IBI343 Olatorepatide: how a domestic pharma “built on oncology” turned weight loss into a US$2 billion going-global case studySep 26, 2026 · 14 min read · Hansoh · olatorepatide Ribupatide: a China-originated GLP-1/GIP dual agonist's breakout case study in globalizationSep 26, 2026 · 19 min read · Hengrui · ribupatide SHR-1819 files for approval: the sixth entry ticketSep 26, 2026 · 21 min read · Hengrui · SHR-1819 SHR-4640: a "quiet asset" in Hengrui's chronic disease line — can the commercial platform amplify it into the next steady cash card?Sep 26, 2026 · 16 min read · Hengrui · SHR-4640 SHR-A2009 wins at the PFS interim: in the global HER3 ADC vacuum, Hengrui hands in its answer sheet firstSep 26, 2026 · 24 min read · Hengrui · SHR-A2009 3SBio's SSGJ-611: after 707, how to play the IL-4Rα cardSep 26, 2026 · 21 min read · 3SBio · SSGJ-611 TQB2102: how should a "third-place" asset play its hand?Sep 26, 2026 · 30 min read · CTTQ · TQB2102 TQB3454: on track to be China's first domestic IDH1 inhibitor for IDH1-mutant biliary tract cancer — so why won't it be won or lost in the lab?Sep 26, 2026 · 20 min read · CTTQ · TQB3454 TQB3909: when a "technically qualified" BCL-2 inhibitor arrives two or three years lateSep 26, 2026 · 17 min read · CTTQ · TQB3909 TQH2722 files for approval: 12 days late, and two years lateSep 26, 2026 · 24 min read · CTTQ · TQH2722 Tecotabart vedotin: Sino Biopharm has bet on a global first — where is the real exam?Sep 26, 2026 · 21 min read · Sino Biopharm · tecotabart vedotin UBT251: selling the world to Novo Nordisk and keeping China for itself — The United Laboratories' "atypical" way of going globalSep 26, 2026 · 19 min read · United Laboratories · UBT251

Chinese Biotech14 articles

Afuresertib: an AKT inhibitor that "won its endpoint but lost on position"Sep 26, 2026 · 18 min read · Laekna · afuresertib (LAE002) BL-M14D1 + atezolizumab: how does a DLL3 ADC that is "cash-rich but treading on others' heels" take on 1L small cell lung cancer?Sep 26, 2026 · 22 min read · Biokin · BL-M14D1 Ecnoglutide (XW003)Sep 26, 2026 · 8 min read · Sciwind Biosciences · ecnoglutide (XW003) Withdraw, refile, fall behind: the localization trade-off behind eftansomatropin alfaSep 26, 2026 · 22 min read · Tianjing Biotech · eftansomatropin alfa (TJ101) How did a Chinese bispecific top the global forecast rankings?Sep 26, 2026 · 20 min read · Akeso · ivonescimab (AK112) Laikangqitamab (LZM012): a strong hand as "China's first dual-target", played into China's most cutthroat autoimmune raceSep 26, 2026 · 20 min read · Livzon · Laikangqitamab Lerodalcibep: a molecule with "no suspense at all" — why does entering China turn it into a hard problem?Sep 26, 2026 · 16 min read · Everest · Lerodalcibep On the same road, a Chinese company has already published its data in NEJMSep 26, 2026 · 22 min read · RiboX · RXIM002 Rentosertib: A Panoramic Analysis of Its China Development StrategySep 26, 2026 · 25 min read · Insilico · Rentosertib Roconkibart: "the fifth domestic entry ticket" How Junshi Biosciences can make its second pillar standSep 26, 2026 · 17 min read · Junshi · Roconkibart Supaglutide alfa: holding an "ultra-long-acting" trump card, can Yinnuo Pharma play differentiation in the GLP-1 red ocean?Sep 26, 2026 · 18 min read · Yinnuo Pharma · supaglutide alfa (Yinuoqing) Asandeutertinib approved: it won the head-to-head, but arrived two years late to its positionSep 26, 2026 · 25 min read · TYK Medicines · asandeutertinib (TY-9591) The first domestic oral small-molecule GLP-1 to read out a local Chinese Phase 3: how far has VCT220 sold itself?Sep 26, 2026 · 17 min read · Vincentage Pharma · VCT220 (CX11) YL201: the world's only Phase 3 in nasopharyngeal carcinomaSep 26, 2026 · 19 min read · MediLink Therapeutics · YL201

BD Deals & Industry Events7 articles

China-Originated Assets Licensed to MNCs3 articles