Dexter Yan
Senior Reporter

Shanghai-based Dexter Yan is a senior writer covering China’s surging pharma industry on the APAC Pharma news team. With a keen interest in commercial activities taking place around the clock, he is always on the lookout for opportunities to keep readers better informed of any developments in the field.
Latest From Dexter Yan
New Modalities Help Chinese Biotechs Win Investors’ Attention
Five Chinese bioventures have raised more than $70m from venture capital and private equity funds since late May.
Drought Ending? Shanghai’s STAR Market Considers Two IPO Applicants
With the first half of 2022 ending, two Chinese developers of innovative drugs - antibody specialist Chongqing Genrix Biopharmaceutical and Suzhou Teligene, which focuses on small molecules, are looking to go public on Shanghai’s STAR Market, ending a recent drought of biopharma listings.
China Tweaks On-Site Inspection Priorities As Registration Filings Soar
China’s Center for Drug Evaluation has introduced a risk-based process to initiate on-site inspections related to drug registrations. It is hoped the novel system will suit the current capacity of auditor teams against a backdrop of an ongoing spike in product approval applications in the country since 2019.
China Oncology Drug Innovation Not Correlating With Clinical Benefit
While China approved a record number of innovative oncology drugs in 2021, the correlation between their novel mechanisms of action or targeted indication and clinical benefit is not statistically insignificant, a well-known researcher claims in a new report.
Biotechs Stage No-Show As China’s STAR Market Marks Third Anniversary
To date this year, not a single innovative drug-focused biotech has filed for an initial public offering on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Apart from a suspected tightening of listing rules, IPO disclosures and the plummeting share prices of public companies seem to be looming large over bioventures aiming considering floating on the bourse.
Can China Innovate? Degron Aims For First-In-Class TPD Therapies
Fresh out of an impressive new round of financing and armed with $32m, Shanghai's Degron Therapeutics is aiming for nothing but first-in-class treatments. Its co-founder and CSO shares views on creating original innovative drugs from inside China in an exclusive interview with Scrip.