Ahead of FDA de­ci­sion on BTK drug, Am­gen-part­nered BeiGene is one step clos­er to Chi­na OK for PD-1

Chi­na is re­port­ed­ly ap­prov­ing its 6th PD-1(L)1 drug in just over a year — and Am­gen will be pleased with this one.

The OK for tislelizum­ab would be the first mar­ket­ed prod­uct to be de­vel­oped by BeiGene, the em­i­nent Bei­jing-based biotech that Am­gen re­cent­ly took a $2.7 bil­lion stake in. Chi­na’s Cen­ter for Drug Eval­u­a­tion has com­plet­ed tech­ni­cal re­view and sent the NDA to the Na­tion­al Med­ical Prod­ucts Ad­min­is­tra­tion with a rec­om­men­da­tion to ap­prove, Chi­nese me­dia out­let Jiemi­an re­port­ed.

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