LEO Pharma Announces Positive Phase 3 Head-to-head Data Results from DELTA FORCE Trial Comparing Delgocitinib Cream With Alitretinoin Capsules in Adults With Severe Chronic Hand Eczema (CHE)
Company acquires international rights to Salagen® tablets (pilocarpine hydrochloride) (excluding Japan rights) and Panretin® (alitretinoin) gel 0.1% from Eisai Inc. for $30 million in cash plus approximately $3.3 million for purchased inventory and related prepayments. ADVANZ PHARMA will pay for the acquisition with cash on hand.
Swiss drugmaker Basilea expects to move into profit by 2018, counting on new anti-infection drugs to help mitigate setbacks such as last month's collapse of efforts to win U.S. approval for an eczema treatment.