{"id":1894,"date":"2022-11-15T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianhuaminglu.com\/junshi-biology-was-successfully-listed-on-the-main-board-of-hong-kong-stock-exchange-4-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T10:31:51","slug":"junshi-biology-was-successfully-listed-on-the-main-board-of-hong-kong-stock-exchange-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianhuaminglu.com\/en\/junshi-biology-was-successfully-listed-on-the-main-board-of-hong-kong-stock-exchange-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Junshi Biosciences Announces Submission of a Marketing Authorization Application to the European Medicines Agency for Toripalimab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SHANGHAI, China, November 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) \u2013 Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (\u201cJunshi Biosciences\u201d, HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced today that the company has submitted a marketing authorization application (\u201cMAA\u201d) to the European Medicines Agency (\u201cEMA\u201d) for toripalimab. The indications requested in the MAA are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Toripalimab combined with cisplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of patients with locally recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (\u201cNPC\u201d);<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Toripalimab combined with paclitaxel and cisplatin for the first-line treatment of patients with unresectable locally advanced\/recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (\u201cESCC\u201d)\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cFrom China to the US, and now the EU, the international commercialization of toripalimab is progressing steadily.\u201d said Dr. Patricia Keegan, Chief Medical Officer of Junshi\/TopAlliance Biosciences, \u201cThis was made possible by the substantial efficacy observed in NPC and ESCC as well as the excellent safety profile of toripalimab exhibited across various cancers; these results are particularly impactful when it comes to currently unmet medical needs. For instance, in a randomized, confirmatory clinical study, toripalimab is the first immune checkpoint inhibitor (\u201cICI\u201d) demonstrating a 13.2-month improvement in median progression-free survival and strong trend towards improved survival in patients with incurable NPC. Similarly, a randomized study has confirmed that toripalimab, in addition to taxane-based chemotherapy, significantly improves both survival and progression-free survival in patients with incurable ESCC. What is particularly notable is that efficacy was seen even patients with low PD-L1 tumor expression levels, for whom other ICI drugs do not appear efficacious. Going forward, we will continue to maintain close communication with the European regulatory agency and we look forward to making toripalimab available to patients in the EU as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MAA submission for NPC is based on the results from JUPITER-02 (an international randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded Phase III trial, NCT03581786) and POLARIS-02 (a multi-center, open label, pivotal Phase II clinical trial, NCT02915432). The JUPITER-02 results were first presented in June 2021 in a plenary session of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (\u201cASCO\u201d) annual meeting (#LBA2) and subsequently published in detail as the cover article of the September 2021 issue of Nature Medicine<\/em><\/a>. The POLARIS-02 results were published online in January 2021 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2021, two indications for the treatment of NPC were approved by the National Medical Products Administration (\u201cNMPA\u201d) based on the results of POLARIS-02 and JUPITER-02, thereby making toripalimab the world\u2019s first immune checkpoint inhibitor approved for the treatment of NPC. The FDA has accepted for review the resubmission of the Biologics License Application (\u201cBLA\u201d) for toripalimab for the treatment of NPC; the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (“PDUFA”) action date is set on December 23, 2022. If approved, toripalimab will be the first and only drug approved for the treatment of NPC in the U.S. In July 2022, toripalimab was designated as an orphan medicinal product by the European Commission (\u201cEC\u201d) for the treatment of NPC, and the designation will provide Junshi Biosciences with a number of incentives for research, development and marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n