Mergers & acquisitions
FDA veteran Peter Marks will now shape the future of Eli Lilly’s vaccines work after the buys of Curevo, LimmaTech Biologics and Vaccine Company for up to $3.8 billion total.
Strong science and early support are not enough on their own. Europe needs more capital depth, cross-border investor backing and a lighter policy framework to keep companies scaling at home, according to two venture capitalists.
Eli Lilly, with a busier-than-ever business development team, has made a major vaccine play‚ months after hiring veteran vaccine regulator Peter Marks following his FDA departure.
Going private could give Recordati strategic flexibility and a stable source of capital, according to CVC Capital Partners and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, which are offering to take the Italian pharma private for a 13% premium.
Eli Lilly joins hands with Engage Bio, acquiring the DNA delivery platform developer in hopes of bolstering its genetic medicines portfolio.
Rina-S is the last candidate standing from Genmab’s $1.8 billion ProfoundBio acquisition two years ago, with the Danish drugmaker ending development of another clinical program stemming from the buyout.
While average job postings live on BioSpace have increased year over year for nearly every month of 2026, the number of employees affected by made or planned layoffs by the end of that same period nearly matched what was seen in 2025.
After a 12-month period that saw the Belgian biotech consider a spinout, swap out CEOs, and enter a three-way acquisition agreement involving Ouro Medicines, Galapagos now has a new moniker.
European pharma companies splashed billions of dollars into the U.S. biopharma sector in a matter of days, but there are differing views on whether the activity represents the rise of a new buyer class or a quirk of timing.
After years of suffering from a bear market and more than 14 months of geopolitical turmoil shaking the macroenvironment, biotech appears to be moving on.
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