Kyowa Kirin has bought back rights outside of cancer to tivozanib, amending an agreement dating back to 2006 with AVEO, and opening up the possibility of research in ophthalmology.
Japanese multinational NEC has bought the Norway-based bioinformatics firm OncoImmunity, which develops proprietary machine learning software to support cancer R&D.
The FDA has approved a second biosimilar of Roche’s leukaemia drug Rituxan, along with yet another biosimilar of AbbVie’s inflammatory diseases blockbuster Humira.