Friday, January 19, 2018

(台微體/ 亞獅康) 台灣生醫股 發行ADR


生醫業者陸續出走 台股警訊 2018-01-18 經濟日報 記者黃文奇/台北報導 生醫股「人在台灣心在美」,生醫公司陸續出走,除了健永、喜康-KY即將轉戰美國資本市場,規劃到納斯達克(NASDAQ掛牌,台微體、亞獅康-KY都將發行ADR(美國存託憑證),引進他國市場投資人,是否引發國內生醫股赴美、港掛牌潮,值得觀察。台微體將成為台灣生醫股發行ADR的首例,從新加坡來台掛牌的新藥公司亞獅康,也規劃在美發行ADR日前也曾傳出亞獅康可能在台下櫃,轉向香港或美國資本市場,如今該公司選擇了一個折衷的方式發行ADR對台灣而言也不啻是一個警訊。據了解,去年多家有意來台掛牌的生醫公司,因台灣市場生醫股表現持續低迷,都已經不把台灣列為掛牌的第一選擇,甚至有不少台灣本土未上市公司,考慮到香港掛牌,甚至部分目前在已登錄興櫃的生醫公司,也規劃前往香港上市。

(金可集團 蔡國洲) 創業&併購: 東方光學鏡架/美Hydron/永勝隱形眼鏡/雙美生技/海昌生化/善德生技


金可集團董事長蔡國洲 垂直整合光學產業鏈 2018115 工商時報【劉朱松】以「企業家奧林匹克」之名享譽全球的《安永企業家獎》,2017年由金可集團董事長蔡國洲拿下「縱橫跨界企業家獎」。蔡國洲在創業中,成功垂直整合眼鏡生產、隱形眼鏡、眼鏡通路,及品牌代理等光學產業鏈,在兩岸眼鏡市場,獨占鰲頭,加上六兄弟合作無間,贏得評審的青睞。蔡國洲娓娓道來創業歷程,金可集團2007年以前,由六兄弟共同創業,早期採取產銷分工經營模式,但面對外部競爭,公司效率與競爭力受到嚴峻考驗,且訊息與決策缺乏一致性,於是內部進行變革,轉型成事業群型態,採用產銷合一經營模式,讓其責任歸屬更為明確。集團旗下品牌眼鏡事業群,是以大陸江蘇東方光學為首,生產及銷售鏡架,並順利取得多家知名品牌兩岸代理,其間還收購大陸太陽眼鏡市占率前三大的海倫凱勒(Helen Keller)品牌。為打響品牌名氣,蔡國洲還說,公司特別央請台灣第一名模林志玲,擔任兩岸品牌代言人,透過海儷恩(Horien),及Helen Keller雙品牌行銷策略,以迎合年輕族群與中高階消費族群的需求,目前該事業群轉型規劃在大陸上市掛牌。回首來時路,蔡國洲表示,《安永企業家獎》享譽業界,他很榮幸受到評審團的肯定,他特別要感謝5位弟弟及所有員工的支持與付出,才有今日這份成就。金可集團1985年在彰化秀水創立,以生產與製造各類高級光學眼鏡鏡架等產品起家,1993年在江蘇丹陽,設立東方光學鏡架廠,從開發設計、製造,到裝配包裝等製程,採取一條龍自動化流程,因而奠定亞洲光學眼鏡供應鏈的龍頭地位。金可集團1996年併購美國Hydron,靠著批發商與網絡據點與品牌行銷,成功打造大陸第一大隱形眼鏡品牌「海昌」(Hydron)。2001年觸角伸展至通路,旗下涵蓋台灣前二大眼鏡通路「寶島眼鏡」與「小林眼鏡」等,銷售網絡遍及全台。

5大事業群 版圖橫跨歐亞 金可集團的事業群,涵蓋品牌眼鏡、隱形眼鏡、醫藥生化、眼鏡通路,及策略投資等五大事業群,事業版圖已橫跨亞洲與歐美等地。目前由大陸海昌與台灣永勝在兩岸製造隱形眼鏡,在大陸市占率居冠。尤其,大陸市場受惠於台灣製造(MIT輸入的高價新品投入,以及電商通路線上銷售市場成熟,使公司獲利提升。蔡國洲認為,公司因對隱形眼鏡市場前景看法樂觀,為打造台灣最大隱形眼鏡生產基地,集團預定投資50億元,分二期建立國內最大的隱形眼鏡生產基地,以滿足未來5年的集團營運成長需求。金可集團201510月透過旗下永勝光學,斥資4.6億元,取得占地4,500坪的中科新廠房,預定今年第1季可完工投產,第2季舉行啟用開幕。

投入生技產業 10年有成 集團不只在眼鏡事業布局,早在2006年已投入生化科技產業。蔡國洲透露,2006年,金可原本要在黑龍江發展生化科技,卻在無心插柳情況下,2008年在黑龍江的克東,發現蘊藏2.5萬年稀世礦泉,開始對生化科技的研發探索,成立海昌生化科技,隨後投入眼科、牙科相關醫材的研究,及化妝保養品的製造,集團2016年更併購雙美生技,將膠原蛋白運用在醫美生醫領域。如今,十年有成,集團旗下醫藥生化事業群,還以豬做為萃取膠原蛋白的來源,發展牙科及眼科材料,目前已有產品取得國際認證,並在台灣及歐洲等地銷售,未來與雙美的產品、生產與銷售資源,將進行整合,發揮最大效益,目前該事業群將先以?美基礎,導入集團通路資源,力拚營運盡速轉盈。5年前,集團入主以開發生產洗腎用導管的善德生技目前公司洗腎用導管在國內銷售量達百萬套,市占率第一,預計今年登錄興櫃。集團旗下眼鏡通路事業群,已擬訂南向拓展市場策略,寶島眼鏡除了在台持續展店,並期許未來5-8年內,將現有約150家不納入合併營收的內部創業店,也逐步併入。此外,眼鏡通路事業群也將走出台灣,放眼海外,目前已有合作案,正在洽談中,預期東南亞布局,將較快發酵;東北亞則屬於中長期規劃,他期許透過一連串的海外布局,進而擴大集團營運新局。

(Nature Communications)中研院 郭紘志 副研究員 解密circular RNAs (circBIRC6)於幹細胞功能 !!!


中研院發現環形RNA 控制多功能幹細胞 耗費4年證實 幹細胞中環形RNA非錯誤 降低遺傳變異腫瘤形成 助癌症藥物發展 2018-1-3 醫藥新聞 可以幫助器官再生的多功能幹細胞,在過去的研究中,可以人工方式誘導,但卻被證實可能導致遺傳變異,而中研院花了4年時間,發現細胞中的環形RNA也具有控制幹細胞的功能,而且還可以有效降低原本會導致遺傳變異及腫瘤形成的可能,這個新發現可望進一步協助開發癌症、阿茲海默症等新藥。癌症 阿茲海默症等難解疾病未來又多了新的研究方向中研院花了4年時間發現細胞中的環形RNA可以有效控制幫助 器官再生的多功能幹細胞開發疾病新藥以往研究只關注一般線性RNA認為環形RNA只是生成上的錯誤造成不具有功能但新研究發現RNA非但不是錯誤還可以控制多功能幹細胞幫助疾病的診斷和治療而且比起過去人工誘導多功能幹細胞的方式更能有效降低遺傳變異及減少腫瘤形成中研院新發現可望推進再生醫學也能幫助發現病因讓未來診斷更能對症下藥

作者:余俊穎博士、李東城博士、吳逸盈博士、葉蟬嫻博士、蔣瑋、莊靜玉博士與郭紘志副研究員。

The circular RNA circBIRC6 participates in the molecular circuitry controlling human pluripotency  Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1149 (2017) Accumulating evidence indicates that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant in the human transcriptome. However, their involvement in biological processes, including pluripotency, remains mostly undescribed. We identified a subset of circRNAs that are enriched in undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and demonstrated that two, circBIRC6 and circCORO1C, are functionally associated with the pluripotent state. Mechanistically, we found that circBIRC6 is enriched in the AGO2 complex and directly interacts with microRNAs, miR-34a, and miR-145, which are known to modulate target genes that maintain pluripotency. Correspondingly, circBIRC6 attenuates the downregulation of these target genes and suppresses hESC differentiation. We further identified hESC-enriched splicing factors (SFs) and demonstrated that circBIRC6 biogenesis in hESCs is promoted by the SF ESRP1, whose expression is controlled by the core pluripotency-associated factors, OCT4 and NANOG. Collectively, our data suggest that circRNA serves as a microRNA "sponge" to regulate the molecular circuitry, which modulates human pluripotency and differentiation.

Introduction Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are closed RNA transcripts, generated by back-splicing of a single pre-mRNA. In this process, the 5 terminus is covalently linked to the 3′terminus, resulting in a scrambled exon order. The first circRNA was identified in the early 1990s1, however, in the subsequent two decades, only a few additional circRNAs were reported1,2,3. These circular transcripts were originally considered errors or byproducts of splicing, but with the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS), circRNAs are now known to be abundant and conserved among various biological systems. Moreover, the expression of circRNAs has recently been shown to be tissue specific and regulated in different biological processes, such as epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and brain development4,5,6. The biogenesis of individual circRNAs must be tightly controlled to produce these expression profiles, and studies on circRNA generation indicate that both cis-elements and trans-acting factors are involved in regulating biogenesis. Cis-elements, such as canonical splicing sites, GU-AG, are necessary for circRNA biogenesis7, and complementary base-pair sequences in the flanking introns (e.g., Alu elements) also contribute to promoting circRNA formation by bringing two distal introns together8, 9. Trans-factors, such as SFs (e.g., Muscleblind and Quaking), interact with the flanking introns of circRNAs to regulate circRNA synthesis5, 10. Thus, it has become clear that the biogenesis of circRNAs is tightly regulated in different biological processes to allow them to fulfill their regulatory roles. However, these regulatory roles are still largely unknown. The biological functioning of circRNAs was first described by Memczak et al.6 and Hansen et al.11, who demonstrated that circRNAs can act as microRNA "sponges" to regulate gene expression. Since then, various functional roles have been reported for circRNAs in controlling biological processes12,13,14, suggesting that circRNAs may have important roles in widespread cellular functions. Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), which are derived from the pluripotent inner cell mass of preimplantation blastocysts, have the capacity for unlimited self-renewal and pluripotency, giving rise to many cell types in the human body15. A functional analysis of the core pluripotency-associated transcription factors (PATFs), NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2, has revealed that they are indispensable for the maintenance of pluripotency in hESCs16. In addition to transcription factors, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which have little or no protein-coding potential, have also been shown to have important roles in pluripotency maintenance. For example, small ncRNAs (less than 200 nucleotides), such as the microRNAs (miRNAs), miR-302/367, and miR-372 clusters, repress the expression of differentiation-related genes in hESCs17. Conversely, miR-34a and miR-145 are known to repress pluripotency-associated genes to promote in vitro differentiation of hESCs18, 19. In addition, long ncRNAs (lncRNAs; more than 200 nucleotides), such as lncRNA-ES1 and lncRNA-ROR, repress hESC differentiation by recruiting the polycomb repressive complex, PRC2, and inhibiting miRNA activity, respectively20, 21. Furthermore, the trans-spliced lncRNA, tsRMST, has recently been demonstrated to promote the undifferentiated status of hESCs by repressing early lineage-associated transcription factors22 and WNT signaling23 through the PRC2 complex. These studies clearly establish the importance of ncRNAs in pluripotency maintenance; however, a functional role for circRNAs in pluripotency status has not been previously reported. To explore the functional roles of circRNAs in regulating human pluripotency, we identified and validated a subset of hESC-enriched circRNAs. Through gain-of-function and loss-of-function experiments, we further demonstrated that two circRNAs, circBIRC6 and circCORO1C, are functionally associated with pluripotency maintenance and reprogramming. Furthermore, we showed that circBIRC6 is enriched in the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), containing the catalytic subunit AGO2, and promotes the pluripotent state by inhibiting miR-34a-mediated and miR-145-mediated suppression of NANOG, OCT4, and SOX2 expression. Studies on circBIRC6 biogenesis showed that the pluripotency-associated genes NANOG and OCT4 regulate expression of the SF ESRP1 (epithelial-splicing regulatory protein 1), which is responsible for the generation of circBIRC6 in hESCs. Collectively, our results demonstrate that circRNAs participate in the molecular circuitry that controls human pluripotency.

泰福 趙宇天: bio-similar產品價格 不是 生物相似藥市場 唯一考量 (已建銷售團隊)


泰福化療藥 明年商品化 經濟日報 2018-01-18 泰福-KY6541)昨(17)日召開法說會,由執行長趙宇天親自主持,他表示,旗下首個生物(蛋白質)相似藥TX01預計今年中前申請美國藥證,最快明年取證,換言之,明年將是泰福商品化元年。趙宇天表示,產品價格不是生物相似藥市場的唯一考量,泰福已在去年建立具國際藥廠經驗的小型銷售團隊為銷售鋪路昨日泰福法說座無虛席,甚至有投資人站著聽,顯示生醫產業仍備受關注。泰福昨日股價收在78.1元,下跌0.6元。宇天表示,TX01是改善化療所引起的「嗜中性白血球減少」,預計今年上半年向美國食品藥物管理局(FDA)申請藥證,一般審議時程約一年左右,因此有機會在明年初取證、上市。另外,泰福旗下另一個治療乳癌的生物相似藥產品TX05第三期臨床試驗計畫已獲FDA放行,預計上半年開始收案,明後年完成,而應用於大腸直腸癌及肺癌的TX16,原廠專利將在2019年到期,目前在臨床一期、預計年底啟動三期。趙宇天強調,2019年是商品化元年,公司將開始有營收、銷售利潤,不過產品開發持續投入的情況下,能否轉盈仍未可知,公司成立迄今約投入1.4億美元,手中還有1億美元左右的現金水位,仍足夠用到明年

台微體 擬 引大型投資方 加碼發行ADR !!!


生醫業首例 台微體赴美發ADR 聯合新聞網2018-01-18台微體此次發行是第三類ADR發行的股票是籌資型新股,在美國法規而言是最嚴謹的,因此具有指標性意義。據了解,台微體此次預計辦理現金增資發行新股2萬張,赴美發行第三類ADR占公司目前5.5億元股本的36%,以昨日收盤價104.5元估算,市值逾20億元。依該公司去年年報,前三大股為國際大型生醫基金伯樂(Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund)持股9.31%、永豐餘集團旗下生醫基金上智創投持股5.36%、股市聞人林滄海持股4.75%台微體是國內指標型的特色藥公司,以微脂體包覆技術改造利基藥品。業界認為,台灣生醫股估值過低,台微體後續將有意把籌資市場逐漸導向美國創造利基。葉志鴻昨日表示,ADR已經台灣主管機關核准,下一步將送美國證券交易委員會(SEC)審核。法人圈盛傳,台微體ADR最快在農曆年前即可能在美國紐約掛牌交易,葉志鴻對此僅保守表示,今年一定會發行。對於發行ADR的目的,葉志鴻指出,台微體的臨床試驗都在美國執行,未來產品上市後,美國也是主要銷售市場,為了讓美國投資人了解公司價值,發行ADR能提升國際能見度,有其必要性。此外,法人圈盛傳台微體近期將引進大型戰略投資者,對象可能是私募基金或者國際大藥廠,成為單一最大股東,持股比重將逾一成以上,葉志鴻昨日證實此事。據悉,台微體為引進大型投資人考量,未來也可能加碼發行ADR

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