ASLAN Pharma of Singapore engaged JHL Biotech, a Taiwan/China CMO, to provide biologic process development services and clinical trial supplies of ASLAN004. ASLAN004 is a fully human monoclonal antibody that blocks the signaling of the IL-4 and IL-13 receptors. Work will start in 2016 in JHL’s GMP-certified facility in Zhubei, Taiwan. ASLAN secured worldwide rights to ASLAN004 from CSL Behring in 2014, originally for asthma, though it is also developing the molecule to treat cancer.
