Novartis Acquires Global Rights to Sironax Brain-Delivery Platform for $125 Million
The Swiss pharmaceutical group has exercised its option to acquire Sironax’s technology for transporting large therapeutic molecules across the blood-brain barrier. Novartis has exercised its exclusive option to acquire full global rights to Sironax’s…
GSK Returns to Chimagen for Multiple Myeloma T-Cell Engager in Deal Worth Up to $750 Million
GSK is expanding its relationship with China’s Chimagen Biosciences, agreeing to acquire global rights to an experimental trispecific T-cell engager for multiple myeloma in a transaction worth up to $750 million. The agreement, announced September 15,…
1cBio Licenses PARP1 Inhibitor OC-3 to Lee’s Pharm in $27 Million Asia Deal
1cBio has struck a regional licensing deal with Hong Kong-based Lee’s Pharmaceutical Holdings to advance OC-3, its next-generation selective PARP1 inhibitor, across Greater China and parts of Southeast Asia. Under the agreement announced September 9,…
HUTCHMED Licenses KRAS-EGFR ATTC HMPL-A830 to GSK in Deal Worth Up to $1.295 Billion
China-based biopharmaceutical company HUTCHMED has entered into an exclusive global licensing and development agreement with GSK for HMPL-A830, a potentially first-in-class KRAS-EGFR Antibody-Targeted Therapy Conjugate (ATTC), in a transaction that could…
Simcere Zaiming Out-Licenses SIM0660, a Tri-specific T-cell Engager, to Roche in $1.53 Billion Global Deal
Simcere Zaiming, the oncology-focused subsidiary of China’s Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, has entered into an exclusive global licensing agreement with Roche for SIM0660, a preclinical tri-specific T-cell engager targeting CD79a, CD19 and CD3. The…
DualityBio Partners with Genentech in $1B-Plus Next-Generation ADC Collaboration Built Around Novel Payload Platform
China’s Duality Biotherapeutics has signed a global research, development and licensing agreement with Roche’s Genentech to develop a new generation of antibody-drug conjugates designed to overcome resistance to payloads used in today’s…
Haisco Strikes $1.5 Billion NewCo Deal with Sentivera for Type 2 Inflammation Asset
Chinese drugmaker Haisco Pharmaceutical Group has struck another billion-dollar cross-border transaction, licensing ex-Greater China rights to a preclinical immunology asset to newly formed U.S. biotech Sentivera in a deal potentially worth more than…
Bio-Thera and Avalon Pharma Sign MENA Deal for BAT2406, Proposed Dupixent Biosimilar
China’s Bio-Thera Solutions and Saudi Arabia-based Avalon Pharma have entered into commercialization and license agreements for BAT2406, a proposed biosimilar to Dupixent® (dupilumab), covering Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East and North Africa…
Henlius Expands Sandoz Partnership in Up to $322 Million Biosimilars Deal
Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. (“Henlius”) has significantly expanded its partnership with Sandoz, entering a strategic collaboration covering up to 10 monoclonal antibody (mAb) and antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) biosimilar candidates in a…
Merck and InventisBio Ink a Partnership to Advance Clinical Development of Small-Molecule Cancer Drugs
August 10, 2026, Merck R&D (China) Co., Ltd. and InventisBio Co., Ltd. (or InventisBio), an innovative pharmaceutical company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, simultaneously announced that they had signed a cooperation agreement…