Five months after Sanofi backed away from a proposed deal with Maze Therapeutics on a Pompe disease therapy after an antitrust challenge, Shionogi has snapped up the drug.
Signs that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US may be softening its stance on pharma deals seem to have been misread, as the regulator has now sued to block Sanof
Sanofi is already a big player in the Pompe disease market with injectable drugs like Nexviazyme and Myozyme/Lumizyme, but has now set its sights on an oral drug candidate
GSK's severe asthma therapy Nucala could find a new lease of life as a treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) after showing a clear benefit in a phase 3 trial.<