Vikram Mohan will be joining the upcoming Pharma 2025 event as a panelist with the Topic “Content’s Industrial Revolution”. Vikram believes that with a paradigm shift from the traditional approach to creating, approving, reviewing, and deploying content in the evolving biopharma industry, there’s room for generative AI to act as an assistant to make the…
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Ono Pharmaceutical entered into an option agreement to obtain exclusive rights for identified small-molecule compounds developed by leveraging Reborna’s proprietary RNA-targeting drug discovery platform
Furthermore, the companies will collaborate to discover small molecule drug candidates for mutually selected rare neurological disorders
Upon exercising the option, Ono will gain exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, and…
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Q1’2025 highlights major acquisitions in the pharma and biotech industry along with clinical trial results and approvals. The talk of the town remained Intra-Cellular Therapies’ acquisition by Johnson & Johnson for ~$14.6B
The quarter highlighted breakthrough results, pivotal clinical data, including Eli Lilly and Incyte's P-III Study Data of Baricitinib to treat Alopecia Areata
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Ionis has granted Sobi global exclusive rights of olezarsen excl. the US, Canada & China to treat familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) & severely elevated triglycerides; Ionis to independently market Olezarsen in the US, whereas Theratechnologies holds the rights in Canada
As per the deal, Ionis will get an upfront, with potential milestone payments &…
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Bayer & Suzhou Puhe BioPharma have entered into a global license agreement for Puhe BioPharma’s PRMT5 inhibitor to treat MTAP-deleted tumors
As per the deal, Bayer will obtain rights to develop, manufacture & commercialize MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor globally; financial terms remain undisclosed
Bayer to develop the asset under development name BAY 3713372, with first…
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Merck has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals for HRS-5346
As per the deal, Merck has obtained exclusive rights to develop, manufacture & commercialize HRS-5346 globally excl. Greater China region in exchange for $200M upfront & ~$1.77B in development, regulatory & commercial milestones, along with net sales-based royalties; closing expected…
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Alumis & Kaken have partnered to develop, manufacture, & market ESK-001 for dermatology in Japan, with an option to expand into rheumatology & GI diseases
As per the deal, Kaken will handle development, approval & marketing of ESK-001 in Japan in exchange for $40M upfront & near-term co-development costs, with ~$140M in milestones & field…
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NANOBIOTIX & Janssen have amended their 2023 collaboration to develop & commercialize JNJ-1900 (NBTXR3), adjusting the deal value from $2.7B to $2.6B
As per the revision, NANOBIOTIX will receive ~$1.77B in milestones related to cisplatin-ineligible HNSCC & inoperable stage 3 NSCLC, with ~$165M in milestones for China, South Korea, Singapore, & Thailand. J&J will cover…
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Alteogen has granted AstraZeneca global rights of ALT-B4 to develop & commercialize SC formulations of multiple oncology assets, while Alteogen will be responsible for clinical & commercial supply of ALT-B4
As per the deal, Alteogen will receive an upfront, along with development, regulatory, & sales milestones, plus royalties on sale of commercialized products…
This week PharmaShots’ news was all about the updates on Clinical Trials, Regulatory, Pharma, MedTech, M&A, Biosimilars & Animal Health. Check out our full report below:
Incyte Highlights P-III (TRuE-PN) Clinical Program Data of Opzelura (1.5% Ruxolitinib Cream) for Prurigo Nodularis (PN) at AAD 2025
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Johnson & Johnson Highlights P-III Clinical Data of Icotrokinra for Plaque Psoriasis at…

