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Through a €2.7 billion (US$2.9 billion) acquisition of MorphoSys, Novartis will get pelabresib, a late-stage drug candidate in development for cancer treatment.

Novo Holdings has entered into a merger agreement with Catalent and will acquire Catalent in a deal valued at $16.5 billion.

In the ATMP space, CGTs are hitting their stride with unprecedented approvals in the past year alone.

The milestone approval of a gene-edited therapeutic paves the way for gene-editing technologies.

With the formation of the new R&D unit, Regeneron will assume full development and commercialization rights to 2seventy bio’s preclinical- and clinical-stage cell therapy pipeline.

The final guidance provides specific recommendations for CMC, pharmacology, toxicology, and clinical study design for CAR-T cell products.

Given its positioning at each new year’s commencement, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference helps establish the tone with which the pharmaceutical industry is viewed.

IMU Biosciences has secured £11.5 million in its Series A financing round.

The acquisition adds a potential rare disease asset to Sanofi’s alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency pipeline.

Under a new alliance, KBI Biopharma and Argonaut Manufacturing Services will combine their strengths to offer end-to-end biopharma development and CGMP manufacturing solutions.

The acquisition will give Novartis full rights to CALY-002, Calypso’s lead product candidate.

The acquisition marks a pivotal expansion for the company into the US market.

Through the acquisition of Harpoon Therapeutics, Merck will gain an investigational delta-like ligand 3-targeting T-cell engager under development for cancer treatment.

CellVoyant has raised £7.6 million in seed funding to speed up the development of novel cell therapies.

Boehringer Ingelheim is investing €120 million (US$131 million) into its Koropi, Greece site to expand production for new therapeutics.

Pluri has launched PluriCDMO, a new contract development and manufacturing organization business that will offer cell therapy manufacturing services.

In a deal worth up to $1.4 billion, GSK aims to acquire Aiolos Bio and gain an expanded pipeline of biologic-based respiratory therapeutic candidates.

MediWound has been granted an additional $6.7 million by the DoD to advance NexoBrid as a non-surgical field care solution for the US military.

Under the collaboration, Boehringer Ingelheim and Ribo will develop RNA-based therapeutics to treat NASH/MASH.

Roche will acquire select parts of the LumiraDx group related to that company’s point-of-care technology, which integrates multiple tests on a single instrument.

AstraZeneca’s acquisition of Gracell includes a clinical-stage autologous cell therapy targeting hematologic malignancies and autoimmune diseases and a proprietary manufacturing platform.

With the acquisition, AstraZeneca will gain a potential RSV and hMPV combination vaccine.

There are positive indications for future growth.

The success of mRNA-based vaccines paves the way for mRNA in oncology and beyond.

Through Syena, its oncology-focused product company, Replay will develop and manufacture T-cell receptor and natural killer cell therapies with the NIH and Miltenyi Biotec.