Description
Shanghai Junshi is a China-based biotechnology company that was founded in 2012 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and STAR board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2018 and 2020, respectively. It received approval for its first core asset at the end of 2018, a PD-1 inhibitor called Tuoyi, or toripalimab. It also successfully created etesevimab, one of the earliest neutralizing antibodies for COVID-19 treatment, which was out-licensed to Eli Lilly and obtained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in February 2021. It also has an adalimumab biosimilar approved in 2022 and is working on an oral COVID-19 treatment, VV116.