SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Wednesday that its COVID-19 treatment candidate reduces recovery time and the chance of a severe case developing. It was making public clinical data on the second-phase global trial study of the CT-P59, an anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate. The firm earlier submitted [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Tuesday that its anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment has shown higher treatment efficacy compared to its two rival candidates. The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety is currently reviewing conditional approval of Celltrion’s CT-P59, also known as Regdanvimab, a move that could [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Friday it has signed an agreement worth 240 billion won (US$220 million) to supply a diagnostic kit for the novel coronavirus in the United States. Under the agreement, Celltrion’s rapid antibody diagnostic test (RDT) kit for the new coronavirus, named DiaTrust, will [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc.’s coronavirus treatment is likely to file for emergency authorization use from local drug authorities next month, the company’s chief said Wednesday. CT-P59, anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, is currently undergoing a phase two clinical trial locally after successfully completing a phase one clinical trial [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion Inc., a leading pharmaceutical firm in South Korea, said Wednesday that it will build a third plant in the country in response to rising manufacturing demand. The 500 billion-won (US$452 million) plant in the country’s biotech hub of Songdo, west of Seoul, will have a bioreactor capacity of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc.’s COVID-19 treatment kills the coronavirus within 4-5 days, effectively protecting patients with mild symptoms from developing a severe case, the company’s chief said Wednesday. Celltrion Group Chairman Seo Jung-jin said the first stage trial of CT-P59, anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, shortened the recovery [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion Inc., a major South Korean biopharmaceutical firm, said Monday that its net profit jumped 185.4 percent on-year in the third quarter on the back of robust sales of its products in overseas markets. Net profit came to 175.8 billion won (US$157.8 million) during the July-Sept. period on a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical giant Celltrion Inc. said Monday it has signed an agreement worth 210 billion won (US$185 million) to supply a diagnostic kit for the novel coronavirus in the United States. Under the agreement, Celltrion’s rapid antigen kit, Sampinute, will be distributed by Prime Healthcare Distributors in the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Celltrion Inc., a leading pharmaceutical firm in South Korea, said Wednesday that it will conduct an additional phase one clinical trial of its coronavirus treatment on patients. Celltrion’s CT-P59 will be administered to nine COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the antiviral antibody [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. said Wednesday that its two kinds of diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus began sales in the United States. A point-of-care antigen testing (POCT) kit, dubbed “Sampinute,” co-developed by local health care firm BBB, was commercialized following emergency approval by the U.S. Food [...]