UCB is to buy US biotech Ra Pharma in a deal worth around $2.1 billion, adding a late-stage treatment for the rare muscle weakness disease myasthenia gravis to its R&D pipeline and sett
With the current mainstay of Parkinson’s treatment being more than 50 years old and doing nothing to slow or halt the progressive disease, the community is crying out for new drugs.
Belgium’s UCB has joined forces with the UK’s Epilepsy Society in a collaboration aimed at finding treatments for people who have the disease, but do not respond to current treatments.