Gilead Sciences’ run of oncology-focused deals has continued with an option to buy cancer immunotherapy specialist Tizona – even though the biotech’s lead drug candidate is alr
Germany’s Merck KGaA has taken an option on a second cancer immunotherapy drug from its development deal with Anglo-American biotech F-star Therapeutics.
After more than eight years at the helm of US biotech Scholar Rock, Nagesh Mahanthappa is standing down as CEO, to be replaced by biopharma industry veteran Tony Kingsley.<
GlaxoSmithKline’s potential first-in-class multiple myeloma drug belantamab mafodotin has taken a step closer to US approval after unanimous backing from a panel of expert advisers convened
Roche has signed a global collaboration worth up to $1.7 billion with cancer drugs firm Blueprint Medicines based around pralsetinib, a drug that targets tumours with RET mutations.