BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MAY 21, 2025

Founded in 2021, ReproNovo has licensed rights to two drugs from Mereo BioPharma and ObsEva that it thinks could address fertility issues in men and women.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Elsewhere, former NCI director Ned Sharpless founded a new startup and Novartis licensed another radiopharma drug. The agency turned back Astellas’ attempt to update its drug Izervay’s labeling.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 28, 2025

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement -- they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. The findings are especially relevant for better understanding neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

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Drug Patent Watch

JULY 30, 2024

The Power of Patent Licensing: Unlocking Innovation and Access to Medicines Patent licensing agreements have become a crucial tool in the pharmaceutical industry, allowing companies to collaborate and…

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With the deal, the Swiss pharma is exploring a tumor target, DLL3, that’s thwarted past drugmaker efforts to attack it.

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JULY 3, 2024

The mRNA specialist plans to eliminate 30% of its workforce as part of a restructuring that will prioritize “high-value” projects like its cancer vaccines.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

APRIL 7, 2025

The pharma giant is wagering potentially billions of dollars on technology from ABL Bio that’s designed to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

The gene editing company will focus on “in vivo” medicines, while seeking to license out or find a development partner for its clinical-stage treatment reni-cel.

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Drug Discovery Today

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Sanyou signs two commercial-use licenses for Horizon’s gene-edited CHO-K1 GS knockout cell line, for use in biotherapeutic pipeline development and contract research services

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

At the center of a new licensing deal is an experimental medicine, PTC518, which is currently being tested in a roughly 250-person study that should produce results next year.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Just before clearing Pfizer’s buyout of Seagen, the regulator threatened to block Sanofi’s licensing deal with Maze Therapeutics, a challenge the biotech called ‘‘unprecedented.”

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 28, 2024

Xilio will get just over $40 million from Gilead in return for a license to its experimental IL-12 immunotherapy. The biotech is also discontinuing other work and laying off staff.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The German biotech will invest $200 million in Autolus — funds that, along with a $50 million fee, will give it licensing opportunities and access to supply infrastructure.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JANUARY 9, 2025

The newly launched biotech is equipped with rights to a trio of weight loss medicines licensed from China-based Sciwind Biosciences, led by an oral therapy ready for Phase 2 testing.

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APRIL 17, 2025

The startup, affiliated with China-based antibody designer Helixon Therapeutics, is developing bispecific drugs aimed at multiple popular immune disease targets, such as TL1A and IL23.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Nippon Shinyaku will pay Regenxbio $110 million upfront for U.S. and Asia rights to treatments for Hunter and Hurler syndromes.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 3, 2025

Callio Therapeutics is launching with an ADC technology and programs licensed from Singapore-based antibody drug developer Hummingbird Bioscience.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

European regulators have for the fourth time issued a negative opinion on PTC's Translarna. Elsewhere, Amylyx read out data and Leqembi hit a roadblock in Australia.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The merger will give the combined entity the financial flexibility to pursue drug licensing deals and broaden its therapeutic focus, executives said on a conference call.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The company will permit six generic drugmakers to make and sell lenacapavir in 120 countries that have high incidence of the disease but limited resources.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Ionis’ drug, sapablursen, is currently being tested in a Phase 2 trial in patients with polycythemia vera.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Two-year-old Kate Therapeutics is launching publicly with $51 million in funding and a licensing deal with Astellas Pharma for a neuromuscular disease gene therapy.

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Drug Patent Watch

DECEMBER 10, 2024

“Patent thickets can lead to holdup of innovations, increases in the complexity of negotiations over licenses and increases in litigation, and can also create incentives to add more and weaker patents to the patent system. Cross-licensing agreements: To navigate patent thickets, many companies enter into cross-licensing agreements.

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JULY 10, 2023

The pharma company will pay $30 million upfront to gain rights to an experimental therapy meant to enhance the anti-tumor effect of radiation.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 25, 2025

A licensing deal with Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals puts Merck in a competitive race to develop a medicine that targets a genetic risk factor called lipoprotein(a).

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Novo will pay $200 million to gain control of the protein manufacturing factory. Elsewhere, Roivant dropped a drug program and Takeda acquired a blood disease therapy.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The drug tecovirimat is currently in use for the treatment of mpox -- the disease caused by monkeypox virus -- that spread worldwide in 2022. Tecovirimat is an anti-poxviral drug, and its use is driving the emergence of drug-resistant variants of the monkeypox virus.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 10, 2023

The licensing agreement for the biotech’s viral vector platform follows recent Astellas agreements with Taysha Gene Therapies and Kate Therapeutics.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

APRIL 22, 2025

A powerful clinical artificial intelligence tool developed by biomedical informatics researchers has demonstrated remarkable accuracy on all three parts of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (Step exams), according to a new article.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

AUGUST 1, 2023

Some on Wall Street believe the New York-based biotechnology company is now less likely to get acquired after agreeing to sell partial rights to its only marketed product.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 3, 2025

A licensing deal with Denmark’s Gubra gives the immunology giant control of an experimental therapy that could compete with drugs from Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Zealand.

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Drug Discovery Today

APRIL 22, 2020

Cambridge, UK, and Brisbane, CA, 21 April 2020 Mogrify Ltd (Mogrify®), a UK company aiming to transform the development of cell therapies by the systematic discovery of novel cell conversions, and Sangamo Therapeutics (Sangamo) (Nasdaq: SGMO), a genomic medicine company, today announced that they have executed a collaboration and exclusive license (..)

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Drug Discovery Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to life science organisations globally, is delighted that Professors Daniel Longley, Tim Harrison and colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast have entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Ipsen. Saffron Walden, 26th January 2022 / Domainex Ltd.,

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

MARCH 24, 2025

The licensing pact adds a second so-called "triple agonist" to the Danish drugmaker's portfolio as competition with Lilly and other contenders heats up.

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Drug Discovery Today

JULY 7, 2022

Pfizer and Touchlight agree to patent license for Pfizer to utilise rapid, scalable, enzymatic doggybone DNA (dbDNA) in Pfizer’s clinical and commercial manufacture of its mRNA vaccines, therapeutics, and gene therapiesAgreement includes upfront payment, potential development and commercial milestone payments, and royalties upon commercializationAccess (..)

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JUNE 18, 2024

With a drug licensed from Novartis, the new biotech startup aims to reduce the ‘remnant’ cholesterol it says existing medicines can’t address.

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JULY 20, 2023

The startup will take on development of a shigellosis vaccine GSK inherited when it acquired LimmaTech’s predecessor, GlycoVaxyn, in 2015.

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