Rituxan biosimilar ABP 798 : US biopharma company Amgen and Irish pharma company Allergan have submitted a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ABP 798, a biosimilar candidate to Roche’s cancer drug…
Padcev FDA approval : Astellas Pharma and Seattle Genetics have bagged accelerated approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Padcev (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) for the treatment of advanced urothelial cancer, the most common form of bla…
Charles River acquisition of HemaCare : Charles River Laboratories International, an early-stage contract research organization, has agreed to acquire HemaCare for about $380 million in an all-cash deal, as per the latest pharma acquisition news. HemaC…
Vascepa FDA approval : New Jersey-based Amarin has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new indication and label expansion for Vascepa (icosapent ethyl) capsules. The FDA has now approved Vascepa as an adjunctive (secon…
Glaukos acquisition of Avedro : Glaukos Corporation, a California-based ophthalmic medical technology and pharmaceutical company, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Avedro. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Avedro is a hybrid ophthalm…
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), a New York-based private equity firm, has signed an all-cash deal worth $205 million to acquire Cynosure, a medical aesthetics technology company, from US medical device company Hologic. Based in Massachusetts, …
US industrial conglomerate 3M has signed a cash-cum-stock deal worth around $650 million to sell substantially all of its drug delivery business to an affiliate of Altaris Capital Partners for about $650 million, as per the latest pharma acquisition ne…
Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) has initiated the phase 3 LIBRETTO-431 clinical trial to evaluate selpercatinib (LOXO-292) in RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients who are treatment-naïve. The US pharma company is aiming…
Leucadia Pharmaceuticals, the commercial sales unit of Custopharm, has launched the FDA-approved Sodium Tetradecyl Sulfate (STS) generic injection in the US. According to Leucadia Pharmaceuticals, the regulated sclerosing agent is therapeutically equiv…
US biopharma company AbbVie has entered into a collaboration with California-based nonprofit medical research facility Scripps Research with a goal to develop new therapies for a variety of diseases, including in the therapeutic areas of oncology, immu…