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Kyowa Kirin’s dealmaking continued on Wednesday when BridgeBio Pharma granted the Japanese company an exclusive license to develop and commercialize infigratinib.
Regulatory authorities worldwide are tightening their monitoring mechanisms and launching their own investigations after reports of secondary malignancies potentially linked to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies.
With an upfront payment of $185 million, GSK on Wednesday added another exclusive antibody-drug conjugate license agreement with China-based Hansoh Pharma.
Executives from Israel-based companies express concern about future investment and other operational impacts, as the war rages on in Gaza with tragic loss of life amid political and economic uncertainties.
Social media campaigns may have been one factor that prompted Johnson & Johnson and Danaher to make a TB treatment and a test more accessible in low- and middle-income countries.
The companies will evaluate Moderna’s investigational Claudin18.2 mRNA cancer vaccine in combination with CARsgen’s Claudin18.2 CAR T cell candidate.
The biotech has acquired an exclusive global license for Shanghai-based DualityBio’s investigational antibody-drug conjugate for select solid tumors.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding and land collaboration agreement to develop medicines exclusively for Chinese use.
As geopolitical tensions rise in the region, AstraZeneca is looking at potentially spinning off its China unit into its own independent business.
The deal with BlissBio is the latest in a cascade of multi-million- and billion-dollar acquisitions and collaborations centered on antibody-drug conjugates.
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