Positive clinical outcomes for Hengrui and Innovent/Lilly’s obesity candidates presented at ADA were based on trials that enrolled Chinese subjects and were characterized by fewer women and less severe obesity than similar Western studies. Even so, some of the data appear to stack up well against western rival drugs.

In this Chinese-language podcast episode, "Angus" Shipo Xie, a lawyer at Han Kun Law, joins Brian Yang to discuss the implications of China's updated Data Overseas Transfer rules issued in late March. Dexter Yan explains clinical data released by Hutchmed, Jiangsu Hengrui and Innovent Bio at the recent EHA and ADA annual conferences.

According to China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association, in the first quarter of 2024 a total of 44 cell therapies in the domestic cell therapy field made clinical application progress, including 28 immune cell therapies and 16 stem cell therapies.

CBER's Lola Fashoyin-Aje offers some thoughts on when and how the FDA might consider the accessibility of a product in its approval decisions at BIO 2024.