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 When licensing deals go bad - Novo sues KBP Bio for $830m Novo Nordisk lawsuit claims KBP concealed clinical data ahead of a $1.3bn licensing deal for blood pressure drug candidate ocedurenone.
News Roche licenses Innovent ADC that could challenge Amgen drug Roche licenses rights to a DLL3-targeted ADC from China's Innovent, hoping to bring a competitor to Amgen's lung cancer therapy Imdelltra to market.
News MSD makes its obesity move with $2bn Hansoh deal MSD has been rumoured to be considering a takeover of Viking Therapeutics in order to get a horse in the obesity therapy race, but chose instead to back a runner from China's Hansoh Pharma.
News Summit climbs on rumour of $15bn AstraZeneca interest Is AstraZeneca about to join the ranks of pharma companies spending big bucks on PD(L)-1xVEGF bispecific antibodies for cancer?
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