ScinoPharm and Lee's Pharma jointly develop drugs for the Chinese market

9 May 2014

Taiwan API specialist ScinoPharm Taiwan (TWSE: 1789) and Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings (950: HK) have entered into two collaborations whereby they will jointly develop and produce fondaparinux, an anti-thrombotic agent and travoprost and bimatoprost, two prostaglandin derivative drugs for treating glaucoma.

Capitalizing on the strengths and expertise of the two companies, the products are expected to offer competitive advantages on entering into the Chinese high-end generic drug market, the drugmakers say.

These drugs have extremely high technical entry barriers in process development and manufacturing. This collaboration takes the advantages of the two sides, ie, the R&D strengths of ScinoPharm in the development and manufacturing of highly potent APIs, coupled with Lee's wealth of experience in developing and manufacturing ophthalmic products plus its outstanding marketing channels in China.

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