BeiGene, Ltd - BGNE

BeiGene, Ltd., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes molecularly-targeted and immuno-oncology drugs for the treatment of cancer. Its commercial products include ABRAXANE, a solvent-free chemotherapy product for the treatment of breast, non-small cell lung, pancreatic, and gastric cancer; REVLIMID, an oral immunomodulatory drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma in combination with dexamethasone; and VIDAZA, a pyrimidine nucleoside analog for the treatment of intermediate-2 and high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic myelomonocyte leukemia, and acute myeloid leukemia with 20% to 30% blasts and multi-lineage dysplasia. The company’s clinical stage drug candidates include BGB-3111, a small molecule Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor for the treatment of various lymphomas; BGB-A317, a humanized monoclonal antibody for solid and hematological cancers; BGB-290, a small molecule inhibitor of PARP1 and PARP2 for the treatment of homologous recombination deficient cancers; BGB-283, a small molecule RAF dimer inhibitor to treat cancers with aberrations in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway, including BRAF mutations and KRAS/NRAS gene mutations; BGB-A333, an humanized monoclonal antibody for the immune checkpoint receptor ligand PD-L1; and MGCD-0516, a multi-kinase inhibitor. Its preclinical programs consists of targeted therapies and immuno-oncology agents, including an additional RAF dimer inhibitor, a TIM-3 cell surface protein monoclonal antibody, and a BTK inhibitor for non-oncology indications. The company has a strategic collaboration with Celgene Corporation to research and develop BeiGene, Ltd.’s investigational anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor, BGB-A317; and with Merck KGaA to research and develop on BGB-290 and BGB-283. BeiGene, Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in George Town, the Cayman Islands.