JUNSHI BIO - VOLUNTARY ANNOUNCEMENT - TORIPALIMAB IN COMBINATION WITH CHEMOTHERAPY AS PERIOPERATIVE TREATMENT FOR RESECTABLE STAGE II-III NSCLC PATIENTS MET PRIMARY ENDPOINT IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS OF PHASE III CLINICAL STUDY
JUNSHI BIO - VOLUNTARY ANNOUNCEMENT -
TORIPALIMAB IN COMBINATION WITH CHEMOTHERAPY AS PERIOPERATIVE TREATMENT FOR RESECTABLE STAGE II-III NSCLC PATIENTS MET PRIMARY ENDPOINT IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS OF PHASE III CLINICAL STUDY
SHANGHAI JUNSHI BIOSCIENCES CO., LTD.*
上海君實生物醫藥科技股份有限公司
(a joint stock company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock code: 1877)
VOLUNTARY ANNOUNCEMENT –
TORIPALIMAB IN COMBINATION WITH CHEMOTHERAPY AS
PERIOPERATIVE TREATMENT FOR RESECTABLE STAGE II-III NSCLC PATIENTS MET PRIMARY ENDPOINT IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS OF
PHASE III CLINICAL STUDY
This announcement is made by Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd.* (上海君實生物醫藥科技股份有限公司) (the "Company") on a voluntary basis. Reference is also made to the overseas regulatory announcement of the Company dated 26 May 2026.
The board (the "Board") of directors (the "Directors") of the Company is pleased to announce that a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center phase III clinical study ("NEOTORCH", NCT04158440) of the Company's product toripalimab (trade name: TUOYI®, product code: JS001) in combination with platinum-containing doublet chemotherapy as perioperative treatment for resectable stage II-III non-small cell lung cancer ("NSCLC") patients has finished the final analysis. The primary endpoints of event-free survival ("EFS") and major pathological response ("MPR") rate in the stage II-III population, as well as the MPR rate in the stage III population met the pre-defined efficacy boundary. The Company plans to submit a supplemental application for the product to the regulatory authorities in the near future. The indication in the application is expanded from perioperative treatment of patients with resectable stage III NSCLC to perioperative treatment of patients with resectable stage II-III NSCLC.
ABOUT TORIPALIMAB
Toripalimab injection is the first domestic PD-1 monoclonal antibody approved for marketing in China, and has won the "Chinese Patent Gold Award (中國專利金獎)", the top award in China's patent field. Over forty toripalimab clinical studies sponsored by the Company covering more than fifteen indications have been conducted globally, including in China, the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Ongoing or completed pivotal clinical studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of toripalimab cover a broad range of tumor types. As of the date of this announcement, there are 13 approved indications for toripalimab in Chinese mainland. In December 2020, toripalimab injection was successfully negotiated into the National Reimbursement Drug List (the "NRDL") for the first time. At present, 12 approved indications have been included in the NRDL. Toripalimab is the only anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody included in the NRDL for the treatment of renal carcinoma, triple negative breast cancer and melanoma. Three indications of toripalimab for the treatment of advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma were approved in Hong Kong SAR, China.
In terms of international layout, as of the date of this announcement, toripalimab has been approved for marketing in more than 40 countries and regions including the United States, the European Union, India, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore, and is also under review for marketing in various countries and regions worldwide.
ABOUT NEOTORCH
Lung cancer is currently a malignant tumor with the highest prevalence and mortality rate in the world. According to data released by GLOBOCAN 2022, in 2022, there were 1.06 million new lung cancer cases in China, accounting for 22.0% of all new cancer cases in China; there were 0.73 million lung cancer deaths in China, representing 28.5% of all cancer deaths in China. Amongst these patients, 20%-25% were surgically resectable at first diagnosis, but even after radical surgical treatment, 30%-55% of such patients suffered from post-surgical recurrence and death. Radical surgery in combination with chemotherapy is a way to prevent recurrence, but chemotherapy, as preoperative neoadjuvant or postoperative adjuvant therapy, has limited clinical benefit and can only raise the 5-year survival rate of patients by approximately 5%.
Recently, immunotherapy represented by PD-(L)1 inhibitors has been transforming the landscape of cancer treatment. It has a long-term effect in respect of tumor control or elimination by relieving the immune suppression of immune cells by tumor cells and reactivating the patients' own immune cells to kill the tumor. PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors have been recommended by authoritative lung cancer treatment guidelines both domestically and internationally as one of the standard perioperative treatments for resectable stage II-III NSCLC.
NEOTORCH is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III clinical study aiming to compare the efficacy and safety of toripalimab or placebo in combination with chemotherapy as perioperative treatment for resectable stage II/III NSCLC patients. Led by Professor Lu Shun (陸舜) of Shanghai Chest Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University* (上海交通大學醫學院附屬胸科醫院) as primary researcher, the study included a total of 501 patients with resectable stage II-III NSCLC. The primary endpoints are EFS in patients with stage III and stage II-III disease as assessed by researchers, and MPR rate in patients with stage III and stage II-III disease as assessed by the Blind Independent Pathology Review Committee (BIPR). The secondary endpoints include OS, EFS as assessed by Independent Review Committee (IRC), pathological complete remission rate (pCR rate), disease free survival (DFS) and safety.
In January 2023, the EFS interim analysis of patients with resectable stage III NSCLC of NEOTORCH met the primary endpoint. The latest study results were presented as oral presentation at the April 2023 session of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Plenary Series and the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting. NEOTORCH was the world's first phase III clinical study of an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody for NSCLC perioperative treatment (including neoadjuvant and adjuvant) with positive EFS results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), a leading international journal in January 2024. The results showed that compared to perioperative chemotherapy alone, toripalimab in combination with chemotherapy as perioperative treatment led to a significant improvement in EFS (median EFS: not reached vs. 15.1 months, P<0.001), reduced risk of disease recurrence, progression events or death by 60% (HR=0.40, 95% CI: 0.28-0.57). Meanwhile, the OS in the toripalimab in combination with chemotherapy group showed a clear trend toward improved outcomes (HR=0.62, 95% CI: 0.38-1.00). Moreover, toripalimab in combination with chemotherapy as perioperative treatment increased the pCR rate to nearly 25-fold (pCR rate: 24.8% vs. 1.0%) and the MPR rate to nearly 6-fold (MPR rate: 48.5% vs. 8.4%). The primary endpoint of the final analysis of the study will be presented at a recent international academic conference.
In December 2023, based on the results of the interim analysis of NEOTORCH, the supplemental new drug application for the new indication of toripalimab in combination with platinum-containing doublet chemotherapy for perioperative treatment of resectable stage IIIA-IIIB NSCLC patients was approved. It was the first approved perioperative therapy for lung cancer domestically and the second one worldwide, and received the highest-level recommendation in the 2024 edition of the Guidelines of Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology ("CSCO") for the Diagnosis and Treatment of NSCLC* 《( CSCO 非小細胞肺癌診療指南》).
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By order of the Board
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd.* Mr. Xiong Jun
Chairman
Shanghai, the PRC, 26 May 2026