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This week: Cancer license deals from J&J and BeiGene, a potential $7B acquisition by Roche and confirmed $1.9B Lilly buy, EU fine for Illumina, and more legal challenges to the Inflation Reduction Act
After paying $300 million upfront to BeiGene for option rights to ociperlimab in December 2021, Novartis has dropped the agreement and given the rights back to the Chinese biotech.
The biotech has acquired an exclusive global license for Shanghai-based DualityBio’s investigational antibody-drug conjugate for select solid tumors.
The pharma company alleges that BeiGene’s Brukinsa patent, issued on Tuesday, infringes on its patent for Imbruvica to treat patients with slow-growing blood cancer.
The checkpoint inhibitor is approved for several cancers in China, but after an indefinite FDA delay last summer, BeiGene’s partner Novartis still awaits its first U.S. approval.
In a comparison trial, BeiGene’s Brukinsa bested Janssen’s Imbruvica in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic leukemia (SLL).
BeiGene and Novartis’ unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma treatment, Tislelizumab, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for advanced liver cancer.
Beigene and Novartis announced the FDA has deferred action on the BLA for tislelizumab until inspections of facilities in China can be completed.
At the end of June, Novartis announced the latest data readouts in a long string of successes for tislelizumab. BioSpace spoke with Ken Kato, an investigator on the most recent RATIONALE 306 trial.
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