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Spanish healthcare firm Grifols has agreed to acquire 100% stake in Tiancheng (Germany) Pharmaceutical from Tiancheng International Investment for $1.289bn (€1.1bn). Tiancheng Pharmaceutical owns 89.88% of Biotest ordinary

Health Canada has granted full approval to Moderna’s Spikevax and Pfizer-BioNTech’s Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccines for use in individuals aged 12 years and above. The regulator originally authorised Moderna’s

Eli Lilly and Company has announced that the US government is set to purchase additional doses of its neutralising antibody therapy, etesevimab, to treat Covid-19. Under the terms

Sanofi has completed the acquisition of messenger RNA (mRNA) therapies firm Translate Bio to expedite the use mRNA technology for the development of treatments and vaccines. The latest move

US-based biopharmaceutical firm AzurRx BioPharma has agreed to acquire clinical-stage biotechnology company First Wave Bio in a stock-and-cash deal valued at $229m. First Wave Bio is focussing on

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Amgen’s sotorasib (Lumakras) to treat patients with specific non-small cell lung cancer with KRAS G12C mutation. To be

EnGeneIC has started dosing in Phase I clinical trial of the world’s first nanocellular technology-based anti-Covid-19 vaccine in healthy adults. Referred to as EnGeneIC Dream Vector (EDV), the

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started evaluation of the data on a booster (third) dose for the Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The move

Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi) has agreed a $8bn (SEK69.4bn) takeover offer from Advent International and Singapore’s wealth fund GIC. Sobi’s board of directors had unanimously recommended that shareholders