Junshi is the latest Chinese company to announce plans to expand into Southeast Asia, where its compatriot firms are also eyeing large market potential and are set to benefit from less stringent reviews of China-only clinical data due to fewer questions around ethnic differences versus the US.

Sweeping regulatory reforms put China in catch-up mode for the approval of oncology drugs, some of which have been cleared for marketing only in the country. But how does the deluge of new products measure up in terms of actual overall survival benefits? A new study by Peking University scholars and specialists unveils some surprising results.

Taiho will pay Cullinan Oncology up to $405m for their joint venture and lead candidate for a form of lung cancer. Plus deals involving Zhaoke/Visus, AnGes/Eiger, Juniper/Helsinn, Peak Bio and more.

The company announced it would withdraw the BLA for balstilimab monotherapy in cervical cancer following Keytruda’s full approval, but it plans to keep developing the drug.