LADENBURG, GERMANY – EQS Newswire – 28 February 2022 – Heidelberg Pharma AG (FSE: HPHA) and Huadong Medicine Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China, (SZ 000963; Huadong) today announced that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership with the signing of an exclusive licensing agreement as well as an investment agreement. The agreements were concluded with wholly owned subsidiaries of Huadong, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in China with a focus on oncology and ADC research, development and commercialization.
Dr. Jan Schmidt-Brand, CEO and CFO of Heidelberg Pharma, commented: “We are excited to enter this major partnership with Huadong. Through this strategic collaboration, we will gain another valuable and reliable long-term investor who fully supports our strategy to become a global ADC player, and we will be able to speed up our product development and broaden our pipeline. We are convinced that our partner’s strong development and commercialization expertise and knowledge of Asia will both shorten the time to market and maximize the commercial opportunity for our ATAC(R) products in this important territory.”
Mr. Liang Lu, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Huadong Medicine, added: “Heidelberg Pharma is an emerging leader in the ADC space. We are pleased to partner with Heidelberg Pharma and bring the best ADC products to the cancer patients in Asia. The collaboration further strengthens Huadong’s ADC portfolio and expands our ADC R&D capabilities. Huadong will contribute Asian patients to global clinical trials to help accelerate products development. We are also committed to supporting Heidelberg Pharma to become a world ADC leader, by the substantial equity investment and access to Huadong’s ADC ecosystem.”
Prof. Dr. Christof Hettich, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberg Pharma and Managing Partner of dievini, said: “I am delighted that the Heidelberg Pharma team has entered into this strategic partnership with a strong Asian partner and new shareholder who shares the Company’s vision. We have been supporting Heidelberg Pharma since 2004 and are happy to see that their legacy assets have been developing nicely through partnerships and the new ATAC(R) projects have been generating high interest from pharma companies. The dievini team is looking forward to the clinical development of the pipeline with the goal of bringing new, much-needed treatment options to cancer patients.”
The strategic partnership includes the following agreements:
ATAC(R) licensing agreement
Investment agreement
1] Asia (excluding Japan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka): People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, The Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal and Vietnam
[2] dievini Hopp BioTech holding GmbH & Co. KG
[3] Bundesanstalt f�r Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (Federal Financial Supervisory Authority)
Conference call invitation
Heidelberg Pharma will host a conference call and live audio webcast to discuss the new partnership on Monday, 28th February 2022, at 1:00 pm CET, which will include a Q&A session. Participants may ask questions by phone or online via the Q&A chat window.
To participate in the conference call by phone, participants may pre-register and will receive dedicated dial-in details to easily and quickly access the call:
https://services.choruscall.de/DiamondPassRegistration/register?confirmationNumber=2478601&linkSecurityString=516bcba02
Alternatively, those who have not registered in advance, may enter the conference assisted by an operator by dialing one of the following numbers:
Germany: +49 (0) 69 566 037000
United Kingdom: +44 (0) 203 059 58 69
United States: +1 760 294 1674
To access the live audio webcast online, please use the following link: https://services.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=7e9glHUV
Heidelberg Pharma AG is a biopharmaceutical company based in Ladenburg, Germany. It is an oncology specialist and the first company to develop the toxin Amanitin into cancer therapies. The proprietary technology platform is being applied to develop the Company’s proprietary therapeutic ATACs as well as in third-party collaborations. Proprietary lead candidate HDP-101 is a BCMA ATAC in clinical development for multiple myeloma. HDP-102, a CD37 ATAC for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and HDP-103, a PSMA ATAC for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, are in preclinical testing.
Heidelberg Pharma AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ISIN DE000A11QVV0/ WKN A11QVV / Symbol HPHA. More information is available at
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About Huadong Medicine
Huadong Medicine Co., Ltd. (SZ.000963) is a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company based in Hangzhou, China. Founded in 1993, Huadong Medicine has fully integrated R&D, manufacturing, distribution, sales, and marketing capabilities. Huadong Medicine’s product portfolio and pipeline are specialized in oncology, immunology, nephrology, and diabetes. The company has 11,000 employees and one of the most extensive commercial coverage and marketing capabilities in China. ‘Patient Centered, Science Driven’ is Huadong Medicine’s value. For additional information, please visit
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