In an interview with PharmaShots, Alexander Bedenkov, Vice President, Medical International Region & Global Health Innovation Hubs (A.Catalyst) Network Head at AstraZeneca shares his views on the First Virtual Events in collaboration with Slush to accelerate better health outcomes through innovation
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The companies collaborated to launch virtual events and enhance collaboration in the healthcare sector. The event was run through AstraZeneca’s A.Catalyst Network,…
In an interview with PharmaShots, Dr. Barbara Klencke, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sierra Oncology share her views on the license agreement for AZD5153 with AstraZeneca to treat myelofibrosis
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AstraZeneca signs an exclusive license agreement with Sierra for AZD5153 to expand myelofibrosis pipeline. The agreement will provide a novel compound into Sierra's pipeline to supply therapies for rare cancers
Sierra plans…
The third quarter of 2021 highlights the approvals, clinical data & acquisitions. The new alliance observed in third quarter includes AzurRx signed a reverse triangular merger agreement to acquired First Wave Bio for ~$229M
The key highlights of the big acquisition in this quarter includes Merck acquired Acceleron for ~$11.5B, Baxter acquired Hillrom for ~$10.5B,…
Oncology is a rapidly evolving therapy area and all of the top Biopharma players are investing in the research and development of cancer therapies. In 2020- the world witnessed a major acquisition of Immunomedic by Gilead of $21B for Trodelvy
Our team at PharmaShots has compiled a list of top 20 oncology companies based on…
The US FDA has approved 6 NDAs and 2 BLAs in 2021, leading to treatments for patients and advances in the health care industry
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) have approved 37 novel products in 2021
Additionally, last year in 2020, the US FDA…
Despite having the global Covid-19 pandemic- the biopharma companies were involved in multiple M&A and licensing deals. The major focus of the year remains the production and distribution of vaccines to combat the COVID-19 globally
All of the Biopharma companies on our list are on the front line to combat this global crisis. The top…
In an interview with PharmaShots, John Valliant, CEO at Fusion Pharma shared his views on the company's agreement with AstraZeneca, signed in Nov 2020. He also shared in-depth information about the company's TATs platform & Fast-Clear linker technology and provide a glance at Fusion's portfolio.
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Fusion to receive $5M up front and $40M as milestones & other payments. The…
Breakthrough Therapy (BT) Designation is an expedited review program introduced in Section 902 of the Food and Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2012
The Breakthrough Designation is granted to the drug candidates as monotherapy or in combination with other drugs intended to treat serious or life-threatening diseases and has shown substantial improvement over available…
The biopharma industry saw numerous deal terminations in 2020. Clinical and regulatory results- change in control limitations- and strategic reprioritizations were among the most common reasons for deal termination.
Sanofi and Hanmi's agreement in 2015 ranked first under which Hanmi regained WW rights to its protein/peptide discovery technology- lapscovery. The second position goes to the…
Life sciences companies are gearing up to enter new markets as they look to secure their positions after a spate of M&A- licensing- and research partnerships in 2020
Artios partnered with Merck with an option to license up to 8 oncology programs proving to be the highest valued deal of 2020 with a total deal…

