Plus deals involving GC Cell/Rivaara Immune, Sperogenix/Santhera, EOFlow/Zihipp, Grand/ITM, Tasly/Sutro, LegoChem/Iksuda, Nuance/Aerogen, Frontier/AffiRiS and Piramal/Yapan.

BeiGene’s $3.5bn Shanghai IPO and CANbridge’s Hong Kong listing, as well as Dizal’s offering on the STAR market and five financing rounds totaling $508.5m help set a record for Chinese biotech fundraising in the last month of 2021.

Glenmark’s US-based innovation arm Ichnos delivers first licensing deal for IL-1RAP antagonist, while early data for a bispecific antibody demonstates promising activity in multiple in vitro and in vivo tumor models relative to daratumumab and magrolimab.

Novartis among the first to benefit with approvals for Zolgensma, Kymriah, and Luxturna. The new law has also enabled its first clinical trial – a Phase Ib study by Seoul National University of a CAR-T therapy for recurrent or refractory, CD19-positive, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.