News MSD licenses Lp(a) heart drug from Hengrui in $2bn deal MSD has fleshed out its cardiovascular disease pipeline by licensing an oral Lp(a) inhibitor from China's Jiangsu Hengrui Pharma for $200m upfront.
News Novo Nordisk looks east for another obesity therapy Novo Nordisk has moved to shore up its obesity pipeline with a $2bn licensing deal for a triple agonist developed by China's United Biotechnology.
News AstraZeneca buys cell therapy biotech for up to $1bn AstraZeneca plans to acquire Belgian in vivo cell therapy biotech EsoBiotec and has signed a pair of licensing deals with drug delivery firm Alteogen.
News Roche builds in obesity with $5.3bn Zealand licensing deal Roche has parted with $1.4 billion upfront to secure rights to an obesity candidate developed by Zealand Pharma.
News AbbVie pays Gubra $350m upfront to enter obesity field AbbVie has joined the ranks of pharma groups trying to develop weight-loss drugs, licensing an amylin agonist from Gubra in a $2.2bn-plus deal.
News Biogen bags rights to epilepsy drug from Stoke in $550m deal Biogen has bolstered its pipeline by licensing ex-US rights to a drug for Dravet syndrome – a rare form of epilepsy – from Stoke Therapeutics.
News First gene-edited pig liver transplant 'worked for 10 days' In a xenotransplant milestone, scientists have carried out the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human patient.
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