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2026 is set to be a banner year for M&A in biopharma, as buyers facing major patent cliffs fight for a small pool of late-stage assets.
Metsera showed the biopharma world that M&A is back. Who could be next?
These deals radically reshaped the biopharma world, either by one vaccine rival absorbing another, a Big Pharma doubling down after another failed acquisition or, in the case of Pfizer and Novo, two heavyweights duking it out over a hot obesity biotech.
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Bayer is taking multiple shots at Parkinson’s disease with BlueRock dosing its first patient in a Phase I stem cell study, and AskBio is assessing a gene therapy treatment for the disease.
Unicorn Hunters is a new Internet reality show where startup companies can pitch a group of well-known panelists dubbed the “Circle of Money” which allows for a kind of crowdsourced funding appeal.
Grail presents its first data from the interventional PATHFINDER trial of Galleri, its multi-cancer early detection blood test. Galleri is now available in the U.S. by prescription.
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It didn’t take too long before a lawsuit was filed over Bristol Myers Squibb’s failure to meet a deadline for a $9 Contingent Value Rights agreement tied to the company’s merger with Celgene.
Bayer will nab exclusive rights to a differentiated alpha radionuclide, actinium-225 investigational compound, and a small molecule targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen.
venBio Global Strategic Fund IV will invest primarily in drug companies focused on developing therapies for unmet medical needs.
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya is raising $800 million to finance four more special purpose acquisition companies that will be focused on taking biotech companies public.
MorphoSys Pharma is acquiring Constellation Pharmaceuticals for about $1.7 billion. Here’s everything you need to know about this billion dollars deal.
There were seven initial public offerings (IPOs) for biotech companies in the month of May. Here’s a look.
The company, which isn’t expected to enter the clinic until possibly in 2022, is working to make cell therapies work in solid tumors.