At Digestive Disease Week, Celltrion will seek to strengthen its hold on the IBD market, Ironwood hopes to expand Linzess into pediatric functional constipation, and competitors will showcase competing short bowel syndrome treatment and colorectal cancer companion diagnostics.  

GI Innovation chairman and CEO B G Rhee talks about his ambitions for the Korean bispecific protein firm’s leading allergy and immuno-oncology pipeline assets and what is behind his confidence.

The private Canadian biotech is advancing a first-in-class GRP78 inhibitor into Phase III studies in gastrointestinal cancers after interim Phase II data suggested potential to improve upon on standard-of-care efficacy.

Celltrion founder and chairman Jung Jin Seo has outlined why he has decided to return to the Korean biosimilars major and the business priorities for the group if it is to emerge as a top-tier global biopharma operation.