French biotech Ipsen has entered an exclusive global licensing agreement with Biomunex Pharmaceuticals to develop BMX-502, a first-in-class T cell engager. 3 December 2024
New York pharma giant Bristol Myers Squibb is getting into Alzheimer’s in a big way, snapping up global rights to an antibody program from BioArctic. 19 December 2024
BioAge Labs today announced a multi-year research collaboration with Swiss pharma giant Novartis, with the news pushing the US biotech’s shares up 6.1% to $4.35 by early afternoon. 18 December 2024
Sweden-based biotech Hansa Biopharma has released promising full results from a Phase II study evaluating imlifidase, its IgG-cleaving enzyme, in severe Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). 18 December 2024
Eli Lilly has announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration has approved Kisunla (donanemab-azbt) for certain adults with early Alzheimer’s disease. 18 December 2024
US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has announced the submission of a Type II variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). 18 December 2024
Flagship Pioneering-founded genome engineering biotech Tessera Therapeutics today announced an investment of up to $50 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop curative, globally accessible in vivo genetic therapies for sickle cell disease. 18 December 2024
US pharma giant Merck & Co has announced the discontinuation of the clinical development programs for vibostolimab, an anti-TIGIT antibody, and favezelimab, an anti-LAG-3 antibody. 18 December 2024
French CNS specialist Theranexus saw its shares leap more than 34% to 0.65 euros as it revealed a license and supply agreement with Exeltis to commercialize TX01, its novel formulation of a compound already approved in the indication for the treatment of rare neurological diseases. 18 December 2024
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for the treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy, said Gilead Sciences. 17 December 2024
Venture capital firm BC Partners has entered into an agreement under which the private equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives will acquire a majority stake in Netherlands-based Synthon, from funds advised by BC Partners. 17 December 2024
The Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) in Mexico has approved humanized anti-soluble aggregated amyloid-beta (Aβ) monoclonal antibody Leqembi (lecanemab) for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 5 December 2024
Venture capital firm BC Partners has entered into an agreement under which the private equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives will acquire a majority stake in Netherlands-based Synthon, from funds advised by BC Partners. 17 December 2024