21st century is the century of life sciences. Currently, more than half of members of the United States National Academy of Sciences engage in the life science field; more than half of the U.S. Federal Government’s budget for scientific research is used for life sciences. Therefore, biological drugs are developing faster and faster in human disease therapeutic areas, compared to chemical drugs.

Biotech drugs are referred to as biological drugs and mainly divided into recombinant protein drugs, recombinant polypeptide drugs, recombinant DNA drugs, and stem cell therapies, etc. It’s estimated that the global biological drug market will reach USD 326 billion in 2022. And Frost&Sullivan forecasts that the Chinese biological drug market will reach a size of RMB 326.9 billion in 2021. Among the 93 new drugs marketed in the world in 2018, there are 54 chemical drugs and 39 biological drugs.
Let’s check the targets and R&D information of those 39 drugs:
S/N | Pharmaceutical product name | Target | R&D company |
1 | Caplacizumab | vWF | Ablynx |
2 | Darvadstrocel (TiGenix) | unidentified | TiGenix, Takeda |
3 | YS-ON-001 | unidentified | Yisheng Biopharma |
4 | Etanercept biosimilar (Mochida) | TNFβ, TNFα | Mochida Pharmaceutical , Ayumi |
5 | Adalimumab biosimilar | TNFα | Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics, Mylan |
6 | Adalimumab biosimilar | TNFα | Sandoz |
7 | Romosozumab | SO | Amgen, UCB, Astellas |
8 | Andexanet alfa | PT | Portola Pharmaceutical |
9 | Pegvaliase-pqpz | Phenylalanine | BioMarin Pharmaceutical |
10 | Cemiplimab | PD-1 | Regeneron Pharmaceutic... Read More
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