AbbVie and Roche’s Venclexta is making headway as a second-line chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) treatment, and a new US filing could extend its use into the first-line setting.
Biogen has agreed to buy UK-based gene therapy biotech Nightstar, which focuses on using modified viruses as therapies for inherited retinal disorders, in a deal worth $800 million.
Roche is to buy gene therapy firm Spark Therapeutics for $4.8 billion, adding an already-approved treatment for inherited blindness to its portfolio, and boosting its pipeline with a series
With a Brexit deal still out of sight, there have been intensified warnings in the UK about potential disruptions to medicine supplies that could follow a no-deal scenario.
Just a few months after Immune Design saw its shares crater on a phase II fail, Merck & Co/MSD has agreed a deal to acquire the biotech and its immuno-oncology and vaccines pipeline.