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AstraZeneca to advance haematology cell therapy
The new acquisition grants AstraZeneca rights to a new CAR-T cell therapy with a differentiated manufacturing process that could provide a potential best-in-class blood cancer treatment.
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Biopharma dealmaking: predictions for 2024
EPR speaks to Subin Baral, EY Global Deals Leader, Life Sciences about biopharma dealmaking in 2023 and the investment outlook for 2024.
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BMS strikes $14bn deal for Karuna Therapeutics
The deal includes Karuna Therapeutics' potential first-in-class antipsychotic, xanomeline-trospium, for patients with schizophrenia and other conditions.
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MeiraGTx sells XLRP gene therapy to Janssen
Janssen will pay up to $415 million for MeiraGTx’s botaretigene sparoparvovec, a gene therapy for treatment of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP).
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AbbVie to buy neuroscience specialist Cerevel Therapeutics for $8.7bn
AbbVie plans to acquire neuroscience specialist Cerevel Therapeutics for $45 per share, or around $8.7 billion.
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Roche to advance novel obesity and diabetes treatments
The assets Roche will gain rights to through its planned acquisition of Carmot Therapeutics include several incretin treatments with best-in-class potential in obesity and diabetes.
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AbbVie agrees $10 billion oncology acquisition
Under its proposed acquisition of ImmunoGen, AbbVie will gain rights to ELAHERE®, the first antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approved in ovarian cancer.
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Alfasigma to acquire Jyseleca from Galapagos
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Italy-based Alfasigma has agreed to acquire the Jyseleca (filgotinib) business from Belgian biotech Galapagos for €170 million.
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Roche to gain rights to novel antibody for IBD
Roche is set to gain rights to develop, manufacture and commercialise a novel antibody treatment with first-in-class and best-in-disease potential for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), under a new acquisition agreement.
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New acquisition to accelerate microbiome therapeutics manufacture
Clinical development and manufacture of microbiome-based therapeutics is set to be accelerated through Kanvas Biosciences’ new acquisition of key assets from Federation Bio.
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Bristol Myers Squibb agrees nearly $6bn oncology merger
In an agreed merger with Mirati Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb will gain rights to a best-in-class treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a KRASG12C mutation.
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Lilly agrees $1.4 billion radiopharma acquisition
Two late-stage radioligand therapies for oncological indications are planned to be developed through an acquisition agreement between Eli Lilly and POINT Biopharma Global.
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FTC order could ease biopharma competition
In Amgen’s consent order with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) addressing the intended acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, once finalised, some requirements will be effective for 15 years.
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Divest to invest: the new normal in biopharma?
Subin Baral, EY Global Deals Leader for Life Sciences, a partner at Ernst & Young LLP, shares exclusive insight on how strategies such as specialisation can help life science companies secure future growth and the key role divestments and spin-outs have on ensuring this strategic focus.
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Lilly completes biopharma acquisitions
Lilly expands its portfolio of treatments for cardiometabolic diseases with acquisition of Versanis Bio and Sigilon Therapeutics.
