In the days before 2020 came to a close, China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) issued the 2020 Edition of the National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL).
This year, PD-1 inhibitors — a category of drugs that are often costly yet highly effective — were the hot issue between multinational corporations (MNCs) and domestic businesses. When the negotiations came to a close, home-grown PD-1 efforts from Shanghai Junshi Biosciences, BeiGene Ltd. and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine took the coveted spots from household names like Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and MSD.
