News and Trends 10 Aug 2022
Bone Therapeutics and Medsenic set to combine in share for share deal
Subject to the outcome of a shareholders’ meeting, Bone Therapeutics and Medsenic are set to combine their operations reducing risks…
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News and Trends 4 Aug 2022
Gilead Sciences set to acquire MiroBio for $405M
California-headquartered Gilead Sciences, Inc. and MiroBio, a privately-held U.K.-based biotech company, have announced the companies have entered into a definitive…
News and Trends 1 Aug 2022
Arecor Therapeutics adds diabetes product to portfolio after significant acquisition
Arecor Therapeutics plc has bought all of Tetris Pharma Ltd shares adding a key commercial diabetes product to its portfolio.…
News and Trends 26 Jul 2022
Ginkgo acquires Zymergen for $300M and picks up Bayer facility for $83M
U.S. cell programming company Ginkgo Bioworks has signed definitive agreements to acquire two teams and technologies. The deals are with…
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News and Trends 5 Jul 2022
Evotec completes acquisition of Rigenerand
An Italian-based cell therapy business has just been bought by Evotec SE, a German therapeutics company. Evotec just announced the…
News and Trends 5 Jul 2022
AstraZeneca adds to its treatments for blood cancer with $100M deal
AstraZeneca announced today (July 5) it has agreed to buy a company working on a cancer cure. The company will…
More News! 24 Jun 2022
Gurnet Point Capital and Patient Square Capital buy Radius Health for $890M
Global pharmaceutical company, Radius Health Inc, announced this week (June 23) that it has entered into a definitive agreement to…
News and Trends 22 Jun 2022
Galapagos to acquire CellPoint and AboundBio to advance cell therapies
Belgian headquartered biotech Galapagos NV has acquired CellPoint and AboundBio, a move the Belgian company said propels it into next-generation…
News and Trends 15 Jun 2022
Biotech Acquisition Company and Blade Therapeutics merger collapses
A proposed merger between Biotech Acquisition Company (BAC) and Blade Therapeutics, Inc. has been terminated with immediate effect. BAC said…
News and Trends 7 Jun 2022
Yumanity selling neurology assets and merging with Kineta
U.S. biopharma company Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc. is selling off its lead clinical-stage neurodegenerative product candidate YTX-7739 to Janssen Pharmaceutica NV,…
News and Trends 3 Dec 2021
Sanifit Seals Booming Acquisition Year for Spanish Life Sciences
The takeover of the Spanish firm Sanifit by Vifor Pharma in Switzerland marks a high point for the life sciences…
News and Trends 30 Jul 2021
British Diagnostics Biotech Becomes Social Enterprise After Acquisition
UK rapid diagnostics company Mologic will convert into a social enterprise after being acquired by a group of philanthropic funds…
News and Trends 20 Apr 2021
Pandemic Boosts Diagnostics Field with High Revenues and Acquisitions
The US medtech firm Hologic has bought the Finnish-French biotech Mobidiag for around €668M in the latest of a series…
More News! 9 May 2019
Pfizer Pays up to €700M to Acquire Swiss Biotech Restoring Bone Growth in Achondroplasia
Pharma giant Pfizer is acquiring the Swiss biotech Therachon, which is developing a protein drug to boost bone growth in…
Interview 30 May 2018
How to Close a €3.9B Acquisition Deal for Your Biotech Company
Ablynx, one of the big giants in the European biotech arena, closed the final stages of its €3.9B acquisition deal…
News and Trends 16 Mar 2018
Lundbeck Signs Near €1Bn Acquisition of Swiss Parkinson’s Biotech
Lundbeck is acquiring Prexton Therapeutics in a deal that could reach up to €905M if the Swiss company's Parkinson's treatment…
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News and Trends 7 Feb 2018
January Has Been the Best Month Ever for Biotech in Spain
Biotech in Spain has kicked off 2018 setting a record for the number of acquisitions and fundraisings and their total…
News and Trends 29 Jan 2018
Another One Gets Snapped Up: Ablynx has been Acquired by Sanofi for €3.9B
Sanofi will acquire Ablynx and get its hands on the biotech's exciting Nanobody technology just months after the biotech joined…
Interview 29 Jan 2018
Meet the CEO of the Other Big Biotech Acquisition Target in 2017
Christian Schetter’s company, Rigontec, was acquired by MSD last year for nearly half a billion euro. How did he and…
More News! 9 Jan 2018
Ablynx’ Stock Jumps by 60% After Rejecting Acquisition from Novo Nordisk
Ablynx has rejected a generous acquisition offer from Novo Nordisk. As a result, its stock has soared and is now worth…
