Plus deals involving Biorchestra, Takeda/F-star, TaiGen/Joincare, Dr Reddy’s/Eris, Kaken/bitBiome, CJ Bioscience/4D Pharma, Ono/Macomics, Daiichi Sankyo/Zymeworks, Celltrion/Genuv and more.

With the global market in sight, several Asian bioventures discussed at BioJapan event recent projects, strategies and challenges in expanding their businesses in APAC. The different characteristics of policies by country and facets of venture capital funding were some of the topics when speakers talked about “what's the ideal collaboration between Asian bioventures?”

At a recent conference in Seoul, senior executives shared views on a broad array of topics around developing globally successful new drugs in an extremely competitive environment, including what could be considered as success. Awareness of patient needs and social value emerged as some key threads.

SK Biopharm’s chief technology officer outlines how the company’s open innovation strategy may vary and what he sees as essential in new drug development.