Edwards Lifesciences Corp. fully acquired Vectorious Medical Technologies Ltd. for $497 million, following a series of investments in the heart failure technology company over the last five years.
Braveheart Bio Inc. is paying $65 million up front to license Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd.’s oral hypertrophic cardiomyopathy drug candidate called HRS-1893.
You can’t fault Alcon AG’s focus. In the midst of an extended series of acquisitions, the company has a clear vision of creating a deep ophthalmic treatment pipeline – and diagnostics fall outside that line of sight.
About two years since its founding, new company Radiance Biopharma Inc. signed a deal in which it could pay up to $1.165 billion to Novatim Immune Therapeutics Co. Ltd. for global rights outside of certain Asian countries to a bispecific nanobody antibody-drug conjugate that targets c-MET and EGFR to treat solid tumors.
Argo Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and its RNAi work drew Novartis AG back to the table for a third time, as the companies entered a potential $5.2 billion deal involving cardiovascular-focused assets, including a right to first negotiation for BW-00112, an angiopoietin-like protein 3-targeting siRNA in phase II testing in severe hypertriglyceridemia.
Enlaza Therapeutics Inc. will take charge of research through nominating candidates in its potentially $2 billion-plus deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. For its efforts, Enlaza is getting $45 million in an up-front payment and equity investment, plus the opportunity to bring in more than $2 billion in research, development, regulatory and commercial milestones and tiered royalties on net sales.
Vyriad Inc. and Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, have signed an exclusive license agreement for a novel viral vector targeting approach.
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced a global licensing and collaboration agreement with Novartis AG for ARO-SNCA, Arrowhead’s preclinical stage siRNA therapy for the treatment of synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease, and for additional targets.
Enlaza Therapeutics Inc. will take charge of research through nominating candidates in its potentially $2 billion-plus deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. For its efforts, Enlaza is getting $45 million in an up-front payment and equity investment, plus the opportunity to bring in more than $2 billion in research, development, regulatory and commercial milestones and tiered royalties on net sales.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Traders Association said Aug. 26 that it signed a strategic agreement with Korea Trade Insurance Corp. to support South Korean companies exporting biopharmaceutical materials overseas.
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