Private Company Edition: Recent VC financings across biopharma sectors include three major mega-rounds as Generate Biomedicines bringing in $370m, followed by $250m for Acelyrin and $125m for Chroma Medicine. Also, Treadwell raised a $91m series B and Ncardia brought in $60m-plus.

While strong growth in China's immuno-oncology sector continued in the last quarter, the momentum appears to be slowing, affecting by multiple factors including intense competition in the sector and price cuts related to reimbursement listing, while regulatory authorities have already warned about what they see as the wasting of resources on "redundant" development activities. 

The latest drug development news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker

China's Center for Drug Evaluation has issued fresh warnings that it will tighten reviews of anti-tumor drugs on the grounds that “redundant” development activities waste clinical resources.