Danish pharma group Novo Nordisk has revealed it is in exclusive negotiations that could result in the acquisition of a controlling stake in Biocorp, a French company that
After a slow couple of years, there are signs that biotech M&A activity is coming back into vogue, and a series of small transactions announced in the last few days pr
Lonza has boosted its ability to cater for customers in the fast-emerging antibody-drug conjugate category with a deal to buy Dutch company Synaffix and its platform techn
Illumina shareholders have voted to oust the company’s chairman John Thompson, although chief executive Francis DeSouza has emerged from the annual meeting unscathed.
A judge in the US has approved the sale of Purdue Pharma’s consumer health business Avrio, part of the bankruptcy proceedings related to the drugmaker’s proposed $10 billi
Gastrointestinal disease specialist Ironwood Pharma has agreed a $1 billion deal to buy VectivBio and its drug candidate for short bowel syndrome (SBS), betting on positiv
As the ASCO congress drew to a close, Johnson & Johnson filed for FDA approval of its BCMA-targeting CAR-T therapy Carvykti for use earlier in the treatment pathway fo
Health systems globally have reached a critical inflexion point, where ageing populations and tightening budgets mean we can no longer continue to purely treat late-stage symptomatic diseas