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AZ delivers growth in product sales

Monday 18 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

AstraZeneca Plc delivered a 4% increase in product sales in 2018 – the first annual increase since 2009 – prompting the company to declare a return to growth after years of patent expiries and efforts to rebuild its pharmaceutical pipeline.

Driving the increase were higher sales of the lung cancer drug Tagrisso, the diabetes medicine Farxiga and the antiplatelet Brilinta. In addition, the company generated more than $600 million each from Lynparza and Imfinzi, both new cancer medicines.

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New Swiss company gains rights to CNS drug

Friday 15 February 2019
Country

Switzerland

A venture capital syndicate led by Netherlands-based Life Sciences Partners (LSP) is  providing $180 million to Arvelle Therapeutics GmbH, a recently created Swiss company, which has exclusive rights to develop and commercialise a new epilepsy drug in Europe.

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Grey Wolf gets funding

Monday 11 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

Grey Wolf Therapeutics Ltd, an Oxford, UK based immuno-oncology company, has raised £10 million in a Series A financing round to advance new small molecule drugs for cancer. The financing was provided by Andera Partners (formerly Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners) and Canaan Partners of the US.

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Margins widen at Lundbeck

Monday 11 February 2019
Country

Denmark

Following a multi-year restructuring programme, H. Lundbeck A/S delivered a gross profit margin of 29.3% in 2018, along with higher revenue and an increase in operating profit. Deborah Dunsire, who became chief executive on 1 September 2018, said the outcome was the company’s “best financial result ever.”

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Sanofi gives R&D update

Sunday 10 February 2019
Country

France

Sanofi SA is restructuring its portfolio to focus on developing new specialty care medicines including those for rare blood disorders, while maintaining a commitment to vaccines. The France-based multinational gave the R&D update with the release of its 2018 financial results which showed a decline in both group sales and net income.

Group sales were €34.5 billion, down by 1.7% while net income was €4.3 billion, down by 48.8%, in accordance with international financial reporting standards.

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Moderna exercises option for rights to Avacta technology

Sunday 10 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

Avacta Group Plc, which is developing a new type of protein therapeutic, is to license certain assets to Moderna Therapeutics Inc against a potential therapeutic target which has been part of an ongoing research collaboration between the two companies. In an announcement on 4 February, Avacta said that Moderna has exercised an option to the technology. As a result, it may receive undisclosed payments for reaching future clinical development milestones, as well as royalties on future product sales.

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Neuroscience-focused collaboration

Sunday 10 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

The UK contract research organisation Metrion Biosciences Ltd has entered into a collaboration with LifeArc (formerly Medical Research Council Technology) to discover new drugs in the field of neurology. The goal is to identify selective small molecule modulators of a specific ion channel target which gene association studies have identified as likely to be involved with neurological diseases.

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MorphoSys says patent suit settled

Sunday 10 February 2019
Country

Germany

Patent litigation involving two of Europe’s most important antibody companies plus Janssen Biotech formally ended on 31 January after the parties agreed to drop their mutual claims. The lawsuit was brought by MorphoSys AG against Genmab A/S and its partner Janssen relating to Darzalex (daratumumab), the latter companies’ marketed drug for multiple myeloma.

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GSK restructures portfolio

Wednesday 6 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

The pace of change accelerated at GlaxoSmithKline Plc in 2018 as the company redirected its therapeutic focus towards oncology and took the first steps towards spinning off its consumer products business into a separate company. Emma Walmsley, chief executive since April 2017, said in a teleconference on 6 February that the company’s key priority going forward is to “rebuild the pharmaceutical pipeline.”

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GSK to challenge Keytruda in lung cancer

Wednesday 6 February 2019
Country

United Kingdom

GlaxoSmithKline Plc has entered into a cancer collaboration with Merck KGaA of Germany which features a direct challenge to Keytruda’s (pembrolizumab) dominant position in lung cancer. Announced on 5 February, the partnership involves the co-development and commercialisation of the Merck asset M7824 (bintrafusp alfa) which is an investigational bifunctional fusion protein immunotherapy.

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