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On the potential cusp of FDA approval for its rare disease gene therapy, Orchard Therapeutics is being purchased by Japanese pharma Kyowa Kirin for close to $478 million if all conditions are met, the companies announced on Thursday. 

Shares of ChemoCentryx are skyrocketing in premarket trading after the company announced it will be acquired by Amgen in a $4 billion deal that will bring Tavneos, a first-in-class treatment for ANCA-associated vasculitis, into the company’s portfolio.