The revamp of French drugmaker Ipsen has continued with a takeover agreement for US counterpart Epizyme and its cancer therapy Tazverik, in a deal valued at a little under $250 million.
Ipsen has started exclusive negotiations that could see its global consumer health business sold to fellow French pharma company Mayoly Spindler later this year.
After regulatory hold-ups in the US and Europe, Ipsen has claimed a confidence-boosting approval in Canada for palovarotene, a rare disease therapy acquired via its $1.3 billion takeover of
Genfit was hit hard last year when it abandoned a phase 3 programme for elafibranor in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), but pledged to press on with the drug in other indications – and
Patients in Scotland with newly-diagnosed advanced kidney cancer can now access a therapy combining Bristol-Myers Squibb's immunotherapy Opdivo with Ipsen's targeted drug Cabometyx, ahead o