 HONG KONG and SHANGHAI and FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Aug. 10, 2020 GLOBE NEWSWIRE -- Hutchison China MediTech Limited Chi-Med NasdaqAIM: HCM today announces that it received scientific advice from the European Medicines Agencys EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use CHMP for surufatinib for the treatment of patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors NET. Based on the CHMP advice, we have concluded that the completed SANET-ep non-pancreatic NET and SANET-p pancreatic NET studies, along with existing data from surufatinib in U.S. non-pancreatic and pancreatic NET patients, could form the basis to support a marketing authorization application MAA. Given that no filing issues were identified, the MAA submission is planned for 2021, following submission for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA new drug application NDA. About SurufatinibSurufatinib is a novel, oral angio-immuno kinase inhibitor that selectively inhibits the tyrosine kinase activity associated with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor VEGFR and fibroblast growth factor receptor FGFR, which both inhibit angiogenesis, and colony stimulating factor-1 receptor CSF-1R, which regulates tumor-associated macrophages, promoting the bodys immune response against tumor cells. Its unique dual mechanism of action may be very suitable for possible combinations with other immunotherapies, where there may be synergistic anti-tumor effects.Chi-Med currently retains all rights to surufatinib worldwide.About Surufatinib DevelopmentNET in the U.S., Europe and Japan: In the U.S., surufatinib was granted Fast Track Designations for development in pancreatic and non-pancreatic extra-pancreatic NET in April 2020, and Orphan Drug Designation for pancreatic NET in November 2019. A U.S. FDA NDA submission is being prepared, to be followed by a MAA submission to the EMA in Europe. All such interactions are based on the robust data from the two positive Phase III studies of surufatinib in NET in China, and the ongoing multi-cohort Phase Ib study in the U.S. that began in November 2015 clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT02549937. Non-pancreatic NET in China: In November 2019, a NDA for surufatinib for the treatment of patients with advanced non-pancreatic NET was accepted for review by the China National Medical Products Administration NMPA and granted Priority Review status in December 2019. The NDA is supported by data from the successful SANET-ep study, a Phase III study of surufatinib in patients with advanced non-pancreatic NET in China for whom there is no effective therapy. A 198-patient interim analysis was conducted in June 2019, leading the Independent Data Monitoring Committee IDMC to determine that the study met the pre-defined primary endpoint of progression-free survival PFS and should be stopped early. The positive results of this trial were highlighted in an oral presentation at the 2019 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress ESMO clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT02588170. Pancreatic NET in China: In 2016, we initiated the SANET-p study, which is a pivotal Phase III study in patients with low- or intermediate-grade, advanced pancreatic NET in China. Following an interim analysis review conducted in January 2020 by the IDMC that recommended the registrational study be terminated early as the pre-defined primary endpoint of PFS had already been met clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT02589821, we submitted our second NDA to the China NMPA and are now waiting for formal acceptance. The results of this study will be presented at ESMO 2020.Biliary tract cancer in China: In March 2019, we initiated a Phase IIbIII study comparing surufatinib with capecitabine in patients with advanced biliary tract cancer whose disease progressed on first-line chemotherapy. The primary endpoint is overall survival OS clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT03873532.Immunotherapy combinations: We have entered into collaboration agreements to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of surufatinib in combination with anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibodies, including with tislelizumab BGB-A317, developed by BeiGene, Ltd., Tuoyi toripalimab, developed by Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. Ltd. and Tyvyt sintilimab, developed by Innovent Biologics, Inc., which are approved in China.About Chi-Med Chi-Med NasdaqAIM: HCM is an innovative, commercial-stage, biopharmaceutical company committed, over the past twenty years, to the discovery and global development of targeted therapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases. It has a portfolio of nine cancer drug candidates currently in clinical studies around the world and extensive commercial infrastructure in its home market of China. For more information, please visit: Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect Chi-Meds current expectations regarding future events, including its expectations regarding the submission of an EU MAA and U.S. NDA for surufatinib for the treatment of NET with the EMA and FDArespectively, the timing of such submissions, the therapeutic potential of surufatinib for the treatment of patients with NET, the further clinical development of surufatinib in this and other indications, and its expectations as to the timing of the completion and the release of results from such studies. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, among other things, assumptions regarding the sufficiency of its data to support NDA approval of surufatinib for the treatment of patients with NET in the E.U., U.S. and China or other jurisdictions such as the E.U. or Japan, its potential to gain expeditious approvals from regulatory authorities, the safety profile of surufatinib, its ability to fund, implement and complete its further clinical development and commercialization plans for surufatinib, the timing of these events, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on general economic, regulatory and political conditions. In addition, as certain studies rely on the use of capecitabine, tislelizumab, Tuoyi, and Tyvyt as combination therapeutics with surufatinib, such risks and uncertainties include assumptions regarding the safety, efficacy, supply and continued regulatory approval of these therapeutics. 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