Look back at pharma news in week to Jan 5

7 January 2018

News flow last week was dominated by hints as to what is coming up at the prestigious JP Morgan annual healthcare conference which starts today. Elsewhere, a US court is questioning the Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Pershing Square settlement with Allergan; and Novartis has bagged another Breakthrough therapy designation for its Kisqali. Two licensing deals also attracted attention, that of AstraZeneca with ANI Pharmaceutical, and Takeda Pharmaceutical buying rights to early-stage neurodegenerative disease compounds from Denali Therapeutics.

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The annual JP Morgan healthcare conference is traditionally a hotbed of deal-making, and some companies are getting in on the action early – witness BioNTech’s mammoth $270 million series A round, which reportedly values the German group at up to $3 billion, noted EP Vantage, the editorial arm of the Evaluate group.

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