Weekly News Recap #Phispers | PharmaCompass.com

Lilly acquires gene-editing firm Verve for US$ 1.3 bn, BioNTech buys CureVac; Astra signs US$ 5.3 bn AI deal with China’s CSPC

This week’s Phispers comes with news on several M&A deals. Eli Lilly made headlines with its US$ 1.3 billion acquisit...

Impressions : 401

RFK Jr fires all 17 members of CDC’s vaccine committee; Merck’s oral cholesterol drug meets goals in late-stage trials

This week, US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the US Centers for D...

Impressions : 1009

BMS partners BioNTech in US$ 11 bn cancer drug deal; Sanofi to acquire Blueprint Medicines for US$ 9.5 bn

The pharmaceutical sector saw several significant deals with major players expanding their portfolios. Bristol Myers Squibb (BM...

Impressions : 491

Lilly expands pain pipeline via US$ 1 bn SiteOne buyout; US cancels funding for Moderna’s bird flu vaccine

In news this week, Eli Lilly has placed a billion-dollar bet on non-opioid pain management by acquiring SiteOne Therapeutics fo...

Impressions : 635

Pfizer inks US$ 6 bn oncology deal with China’s 3SBio; BioNTech to invest US$ 1.3 bn in UK for new R&D, AI centers

In news this week, Pfizer announced a US$ 6 billion licensing agreement with China’s 3SBio, securing global rights to a p...

Impressions : 614

Trump signs ‘most favored nation’ executive order to slash drug costs; Sanofi, Takeda pledge mega investments in US

The US President Donald Trump’s dramatic intervention in pharmaceutical pricing took centerstage as the White House unvei...

Impressions : 722

BMS to invest US$ 40 bn to boost US manufacturing, R&D; 19 states sue Trump admin for gutting health agencies

US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats appear to be working, as Bristol Myers Squibb became the latest drugmaker to a...

Impressions : 1627

AbbVie, Amgen, Thermo Fisher to invest in US manufacturing to avoid tariffs; Merck KGaA acquires SpringWorks for US$ 3.9 bn

Ever since US President Donald Trump has talked about a “major tariff” on drug imports coming “very shortly&r...

Impressions : 780

Roche announces US$ 50 bn investment in US to avoid tariffs; Regeneron signs US$ 3 bn onshoring deal with Fujifilm

After Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and Novartis, Roche has announced plans to manufacture in the US to avoid tariffs. The Swiss...

Impressions : 976

Novartis to invest US$ 23 bn in US to avoid import tariffs; Pfizer halts development of GLP-1 weight-loss pill

After Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson, Novartis has become the latest big pharma to announce mega investments in the US. The ...

Impressions : 926

Pharma tariffs coming soon, warns Trump; GSK, Lilly ink billion-dollar deals for blood-brain barrier technology

In this week’s news, US President Donald Trump has said “major” pharmaceutical import tariffs are coming soon...

Impressions : 1069

CBER director forced out in FDA gutting; Sanofi, Alnylam’s RNAi therapy Qfitlia wins US approval for hemophilia A, B

The pharma industry saw its most tumultuous week in the recent past with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) facing an un...

Impressions : 961

J&J plans US$ 55 bn investment in US to avoid Trump’s tariffs; Astra to invest US$ 2.5 bn in Chinese R&D centre

This week’s Phispers brings you lots of news from China. AstraZeneca is investing US$ 2.5 billion in a new Beijing resear...

Impressions : 869

Mallinckrodt, Endo merge in US$ 6.7 bn deal; Astra buys cell therapy developer EsoBiotec; Pfizer sells entire stake in Haleon

In Phispers this week, two drugmakers emerging from bankruptcy — Mallinckrodt and Endo — are merging in order to le...

Impressions : 1156

Roche buys rights to Zealand’s obesity med in US$ 5.3 bn deal; Merck wins Gardasil lawsuit, bolsters vaccine manufacturing

In news this week, Roche has acquired rights to develop and commercialize Zealand Pharma’s experimental obesity drug petr...

Impressions : 1196

AbbVie enters obesity race with US$ 2.23 bn deal with Denmark’s Gubra; Roche’s TNKase approved for treating strokes

AbbVie has forayed into the obesity treatment market with a US$ 2.23 billion licensing deal with Denmark’s Gubra for its ...

Impressions : 921

Lilly to invest US$ 27 bn in US as Trump threatens big pharma with tariffs; FDA scrambles to rehire after mass layoffs

In the US, President Donald Trump has been putting pressure on Big Pharma to reshore or face tariffs. Eli Lilly has been the ...

Impressions : 1024

US health agencies brace for more layoffs under RFK Jr; Novo alleges fraud in US$ 1.3 bn deal with KBP BioSciences

In this week’s Phispers, we bring you news from the public health agencies in the US that have already witnessed consider...

Impressions : 922

Bain buys Mitsubishi Tanabe for US$ 3.4 bn, Novartis acquires Anthos for US$ 3.1 bn, FDA okays AbbVie-Pfizer’s new antibiotic

In this week’s news, Bain Capital acquired Japanese pharma Mitsubishi Tanabe for US$ 3.4 billion. And Novartis acquired B...

Impressions : 1661

FDA okays Vertex’s non-opioid painkiller, Supernus’ wearable device for Parkinson’s; Sanofi, GSK plan share buybacks

While the healthcare sector in the US was embroiled in political uncertainties over tariffs and key appointments, the country&r...

Impressions : 673

FDA approves Ozempic to treat CKD in diabetes patients; AbbVie, Neomorph ink US$ 1.64 bn deal for molecular glue degraders

Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic became the first glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drug to receive the US Food and Drug Administrati...

Impressions : 903

Trump withdraws US from WHO; Novo’s Ozempic, Wegovy among 15 new drugs chosen for price negotiations under IRA

On the day Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, there was a deluge of some 200 measures, which...

Impressions : 1556

J&J buys Intra-Cellular for US$ 14.6 bn; FTC exposes PBMs’ US$ 7.3 bn drug price markup scheme

The week saw the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference kick off with a flurry of deals. In all, deals worth over US$ 19.3 billion ...

Impressions : 860

Novo bets up to US$ 4.6 bn on AI drug development, expands deal with Valo Health; WuXi sells Irish vaccine plant to Merck

As the embattled WuXi Biologics faces increasing pressure from the impending US Biosecure Act, it has decided to sell its vacci...

Impressions : 1007

Lilly’s Zepbound becomes first FDA-approved therapy for sleep apnea; Novo wins nod for daily hemophilia shot

This week’s Phispers is a double bill with news from the last two weeks. Through much of December, the US Food and Drug A...

Impressions : 1141

Novo invests US$ 1.2 bn in new rare disease plant in Denmark; FDA approves two drugs for atopic dermatitis

As the year draws to a close, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been approving drugs at a feverish pace. It approve...

Impressions : 859

Lilly, Amgen inject billions into manufacturing; GSK’s Blenrep bests world’s top-selling myeloma drug

In Phispers this week, Eli Lilly announced an investment of US$ 3 billion towards building a new plant in Wisconsin (US) to me...

Impressions : 10928

Novartis snaps up PTC’s Huntington’s disease program in US$ 2.9 bn deal; Sanofi to set up insulin facility in China

In Phispers this week, we bring you news of how political changes in the US could impact the pharma industry. Big Pharma has r...

Impressions : 954

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