Pfizer completes licensing agreement with 3SBio to expand oncology portfolio

3SBio will receive a payment of $1.25 billion. Pfizer will also make a $100 million equity investment in 3SBio

AstraZeneca plans to invest $50 billion in US by 2030

Investment will support AstraZeneca’s ambition to reach $80 billion revenue by 2030, with 50% generated in the US

Biocon Biologics expands diabetes portfolio with FDA approval of Kirsty

Thermo Fisher Scientific to acquire Sanofi’s steriles manufacturing site in Ridgefield, New Jersey

Enables additional US manufacturing capacity to serve increased demand for pharma/biotech customers

Merck to acquire Verona Pharma for US$ 10 billion

Acquisition aligns with Merck’s science-led business development strategy and expands pipeline and portfolio of treatments for cardio-pulmonary diseases

AbbVie announces new data demonstrating Atogepant achieves superiority in Phase 3 study

TEMPLE, a Phase 3 multicenter, randomized, double-blind, head-to-head study, evaluated the tolerability, safety and efficacy of atogepant compared to topiramate for the preventive treatment of migraine in adult patients with a history of four or more migraine days per month

Sanner commences manufacturing critical injection-molded components in USA

The GMP-compliant facility with automated environmental monitoring accommodates both white room and class 7 and 8 cleanroom space

Bristol Myers Squibb announces positive results from Phase 3 Poetyk PsA-1 and PsA-2 trials of deucravacitinib in psoriatic arthritis

Roche’s Tecentriq combined with lurbinectedin shows significant survival benefit in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer

46% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death, and 27% reduction in the risk of death, in an aggressive cancer type with limited survival and few treatment options

AstraZeneca’s fixed-duration Calquence-based regimens approved in EU for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

AMPLIFY Phase III trial results demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival for Calquence combinations