International biopharmaceutical firm Genevant Sciences announced a global collaboration and licensing deal with Takeda Pharmaceutical to create and commercialize new therapies that would hopefully treat two undisclosed types of rare liver diseases.
Pfizer is buying Toronto and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Trillium Therapeutics in a deal worth $2.26 billion. Trillium focuses on developing a new set of checkpoint inhibitors to treat cancer.
Global biopharmaceutical firms Santen and Sydnexis entered an exclusive licensing deal for a drug formulation that aims to treat progressive myopia.
Sierra Oncology, a late-stage biopharmaceutical firm specializing in treatments for rare cancers, signed an exclusive deal to use AstraZeneca’s product to develop a potential new drug for myelofibrosis.
Sanofi agreed to buy U.S. biotech company Translate Bio in a $3.2 billion deal, as the French pharmaceuticals firm bets on next-generation mRNA vaccine technology beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, confirming a Reuters exclusive report.
Ipsen, a global biopharmaceutical firm that specializes in neuroscience, oncology and rare diseases, partnered with Exicure, a clinical-stage biotech company that develops treatments for neurological, inflammatory and genetic disorders, to create new therapies for Angelman syndrome (AS) and Huntington’s disease (HD).
Loxo Oncology, a division of Eli Lilly, and Kumquat Biosciences teamed up in a deal valued at more than $2 billion to discover and develop novel small molecules designed to stimulate tumor-specific immune responses in cancer patients.
Amgen is snapping up privately held Teneobio and the company’s class of biologics dubbed Human Heavy-Chain Antibodies in a deal that could total $2.5 billion.
Paris-based Ipsen inked a licensing deal with Sweden’s IRLAB for mesdopetam, a potential drug for Parkinson’s disease.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc and U.S. firm Alector Inc. will together develop antibody-based treatments for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other similar diseases in a deal worth up to $2.2 billion, the drugmakers said on July 2.
