The week in pharma: action, reaction and insight - week to December 3, 2021

5 December 2021

By Barbara Obstoj-Cardwell

M&A featured in last week’s news, with US cancer specialist Blueprint Medicines last Monday revealing it was acquiring Lengo Therapeutics for up to $465 million to bolster its lung cancer drug pipeline. Also, French pharma major Sanofi last Wednesday announced it was buying Austrian biotech firm Origimm to expand its vaccines R&D portfolio along with its acne candidate ORI-001. On the research front, US gene therapy company Krystal Biotech soared last Monday after it released positive clinical trial results for its Vyjuvek (beremagene geperpavec) in the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa. Also, Quell Therapeutics raised $156 million in a Series B financing, with the proceeds to be used to accelerate research on its QEL-001 CAR-T reg cell therapy.

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