26.03.2019
- Pfizer has taken a 15% equity stake in French privately held biotech Vivet Therapeutics, with an exclusive option to acquire the remaining shares. Vivet is focused on developing...
15.03.2019
- Under the name INNOVO, Danish diabetes giant Novo Nordisk has launched an innovation platform for China in a drive to accelerate the transformation of scientific research into new...
07.03.2019
- Scott Gottlieb has announced plans to step down as head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after two years in the position. The 46-year-old physician was one of the few...
05.03.2019
- French drugmaker Ipsen has agreed to buy Canada’s Clementia Pharmaceuticals, boosting its rare disease portfolio. Ipsen will pay $1.04 billion for the clinical-stage biotechnology...
28.02.2019
- Swiss drugs giant Roche has agreed to pay $4.3 billion for Spark Therapeutics, marking the latest purchase of a biotech company by big pharma. The deal gives Roche the first US...
22.02.2019
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Asia is selling subsidiary Chiron Behring Vaccines to Indian biotechnology company Bharat Biotech for an undisclosed sum. The all-cash transaction, which...
22.02.2019
- Activist shareholder Starboard Value has acquired an interest of 1 million share of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and has held meetings with management, the US drugmaker said. BMS...
18.02.2019
- Within a week, US biotech Celgene, which is in the process of being acquired by Bristol-Myers-Squibb (BMS), dodged a challenge to its patent for the blockbuster multiple myeloma...
14.02.2019
- US biopharma AbbVie has agreed a deal with Teneobio, a California-based biotech, to develop and commercialize an immunotherapeutic that targets B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) for...
05.02.2019
- The proposed $74 billion takeover of US biotech Celgene by compatriot BristolMyers Squibb (BMS), announced last month, may be looking somewhat shaky. Analysts and investors up to...
