UK biotech Oxford Biomedica and Japan’s Santen have begun an option and licence agreement to research and develop gene therapy products for an inherited retinal disease.
Sanifit has raised €72.2 million ($80.9m) in Spain’s largest private biotech fundraiser to finance phase 3 clinical development of its rare disease drug SNF472.
Spain’s Almirall has taken an option granting rights to develop and market Dermira’s eczema drug lebrikizumab in Europe, in a bid to take on Sanofi/Regeneron's recently approved Dupixent.