In this week's podcast edition of Five Must-Know Things: a look at Alzheimer’s drug development; US-China decoupling irks Chinese biotech firms; seven potential blockbuster approvals in 2023; Novo Nordisk’s cardiovascular strategy; and a look at the vaccine and drug pipeline for monkeypox.

VC funding slowed recently, but public company financings kept up a brisk pace with follow-on public offerings for Allakos and Alpine, private placements for Ventyx and Syros, and Albireo’s royalty deal. In restructuring updates, Biogen raised $592m in a real estate deal and Acerus is assessing options.

At a recent forum in Seoul, an executive of Hanmi Pharmaceuticals, whose novel neutropenia drug has just received a US green light, shares why it is crucial to create "blue oceans" through global innovative drug development and how the Korean firm plans to challenge these markets.

GSK takes equity stake in Spero, and global rights to tebipenem except for certain Asian markets. Merck KGaA gets rights to Nerviano’s next-generation PARP inhibitor for cancer.

Having finally confirmed the Sandoz spin-off, Novartis will become a 'pure play' pharma company and focus on picking bigger blockbuster winners from both internal and external pipelines. CEO Vas Narasimhan talked details at an investor day in Basel.

Merging with the shell of troubled cancer biotech Sesen, Carisma believes its chimeric antigen-receptor-macrophage (CAR-M) platform can bring the immunotherapy application to solid tumors.

With a European approval in the bag for Tezspire, AstraZeneca is looking for quick and successful launches of the severe asthma drug so it can mount a challenge to the other biologics in the space, notably Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent.

The Biden Administration’s latest Executive Order is aimed at shoring up investment in the US and securing supply chains for pharma and biotech products and is already impacting China's CDMO sector, but the long-term impact may be more nuanced, experts predict.

After highlighting oncology drugs pegged to make a splash next year with the help of Biomedtracker, Scrip takes a look at seven potential blockbusters across a range of therapeutic areas including neurology, dermatology and blood disorders slated for approval next year.

SIGA CEO Dennis Hruby spoke with Scrip about how the company is developing its drug, Tpoxx, to address the monkeypox outbreak.

Having finally confirmed the Sandoz spin-off, Novartis will become a 'pure play' pharma company and focus on picking bigger blockbuster winners from both internal and external pipelines. CEO Vas Narasimhan talked details at an investor day in Basel.

PARP inhibitors have had great success in treating a number of cancers but the German major has placed a $65m bet that Nerviano's selective PARP1 approach could produce a safer and more efficacious option.