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Monday, May 06 2019 - 13:35
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Harbour BioMed and Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. Announce Strategic Alliance to Discover, Develop and Commercialize Innovative Biologics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, and SHANGHAI, May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire-Asianet/--

-Global collaboration focused on new antibody treatments in the fields of 
oncology and immunology. 

Harbour BioMed and Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. (CTTQ) today 
announced they are entering into a strategic alliance to discover, develop and 
commercialize next-generation biologics for multiple therapeutic targets in 
oncology and immunology.

The collaboration will combine Harbour BioMed's discovery capabilities, 
including its transgenic mouse technologies for generating fully human 
antibodies, with CTTQ's preclinical development resources and expertise. The 
companies will be responsible for clinical development and commercialization of 
therapeutic candidates emerging from the collaboration in their respective 
regions. Harbour BioMed will be responsible for the United States, Japan, and 
the rest of the world outside, while CTTQ will have responsibility for Greater 
China and Europe. The companies will pay royalties to each other based on sales 
in their respective territories. Additional financial terms were not disclosed.

"The agreement with CTTQ, is part of our strategy to build a robust therapeutic 
pipeline for global markets through co-discovery, development and 
commercialization partnerships that capitalize on our patented platforms for 
generating fully human antibodies," said Dr. Jingsong Wang, Founder, Chairman 
and CEO of Harbour BioMed. "CTTQ, a well-known pharmaceutical company that is 
making strategic investments in therapeutic innovation in oncology and 
immunology, is a strong partner in that effort and directly complements our 
internal discovery programs," added Dr. Wang. It is expected that both sides 
will jointly own the IP and development and commercialization rights for the 
new drugs coming out of this collaboration. 

"CTTQ will be committed to bring valuable treatment agents for diseases with 
unmet need. The collaboration with Harbour BioMed is well aligned with CTTQ's 
strategy for innovative biological medicine development, it also marks 
significant progress to strengthen our capability of R&D of innovative 
therapeutic antibodies," said Shanchun Wang, President of CTTQ. CTTQ currently 
has several monoclonal antibody drugs, including a PD-L1 inhibitor, which have 
progressed into Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical development.

About Harbour BioMed
Harbour BioMed is a global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative 
therapies for cancer and immune diseases. The company has a growing clinical 
portfolio and an emerging pipeline of next generation biologics based on its 
two, patented transgenic mouse platforms (Harbour Mice™) for producing 
fully human antibodies. 

For more information, please visit www.harbourbiomed.com.

About CTTQ 
Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Ltd. (CTTQ) is an integrated 
pharmaceutical company that engages in drug R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and 
sales. It is well-known for its leading position in liver disease and oncology 
therapeutic areas in China, and was honored as one of the leading companies 
ranked 17th on the list of the "Top 100 Pharmaceutical Enterprises in China" in 
2017. CTTQ always regards technological innovation as an important source of 
enterprise development and is one of the successful pharmaceutical companies 
with research and innovation capabilities in China. CTTQ invests more than 1 
billion RMB in R&D annually in recent years. It has more than 1,000 employees 
in R & D and more than 180 projects in its pipeline, including more than 30 
innovative small molecular drugs and more than 20 biologics. 

For more information, please visit https://www.cttq.com 

SOURCE:  Harbour BioMed

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