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Johnson & Johnson has secured authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine under interim order (IO) from Health Canada for emergency use. Developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson

Clinical-stage biotechnology company Amgen has signed an agreement to acquire Five Prime Therapeutics for $38.00 per share in cash, representing an equity value of around $1.9bn. With this

Takeda’s Shonan, Japan research center discovered soticlestat, which is a potent, highly selective, first-in-class inhibitor of the enzyme cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CH24H). Under the terms of the exclusive agreement,

Merck, called as MSD outside the US and Canada, has signed several agreements to support efforts to expand manufacturing capacity and supply of SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 medicines and vaccines. The

WuXi AppTec has acquired OXGENE, a contract research and development organisation in the UK, to strengthen cell and gene therapy service offerings for global customers. OXGENE will retain

Boehringer Ingelheim has entered into a new research and licensing agreement with biotech company Gubra to identify and validate innovative peptides to treat obesity. The new partnership builds

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the marketing authorization application (MAA) for Pfizer and OPKO’s somatrogon, for review. Somatrogon is a long-acting human growth hormone (hGH) molecule,

Biopharmaceutical firm Merck has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Pandion Therapeutics through a subsidiary, for a total equity value of about $1.85m.

Moderna has announced plans to increase its global manufacturing capacity for Covid-19 vaccine by making additional capital investments. The investments will be made at the company’s owned and