Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Daily Archives

Boehringer Ingelheim abandons biosimilars outside the US

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German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim will not commercialize its approved adalimumab product Cyltezo in Europe and is discontinuing all biosimilar development activities outside the US. Earlier this month, an article published in Bioprocess Insider considering the impending exit of Big Pharma from the biosimilars space brought a lot of attention from industry and investors. The piece drew on Merck KGaA’s abandonment of its biosimilars programs in 2017 as an example, and now fellow German Big Pharma firm Boehringer Ingelheim is contemplating…

November 28, 2018

Small molecule M&A round-up: Roche buys Jecure, Arsanis and X4 merge

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Bored of biologics? Tired of T-cells? Well BioProcess Insider takes a look at some of the big developments in the small molecule world. First up in this compendium is Swiss pharma giant Roche. The firm has acquired San Diego, California-based Jecure Therapeutics through its Genentech division. While Genentech is synonymous with biologics, Jecure’s business focuses on small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. Its lead candidate is an inhibitor of Nucleotide-binding oligomerization (NOD)-like Receptor Family…

November 28, 2018