Bayer is relinquishing its Animal Health Unit to Elanco as the German major turns its focus more towards life sciences. The money received should help it pay down some Monsanto debt, but there are antitrust concerns.

The Turkish Government’s carrot-and-stick “localization” policy has started to yield results with some multinational pharma companies including GSK and Sanofi disclosing joint production ventures with local companies, but these ventures have been limited by difficult economic conditions and worsening investment environment, and the fixed euro rate.

Complete response letter follows July deficiencies letter that made approval seem highly unlikely. Vanda called the setback perplexing and said it plans to continue working to get jet lag disorder added to the Hetlioz label.

The Danish group is beefing up its operations across the Atlantic as it prepares filings for dasiglucagon and glepaglutide.

AbbVie now has both of its Humira successors approved in the US, following April’s Skyrizi approval for psoriasis. But Rinvoq faces stiff competition both within the JAK1 class and in rheumatoid arthritis generally.

Glenmark appears close to sewing up a deal for its biosimilar version of Novartis/Genentech's Xolair amid the firm's ongoing focus on partnering out some key assets. It also expects to kick off plans to raise capital in the US for its innovation business in Q4 of fiscal 2019-20.

Complete response letter follows July deficiencies letter that made approval seem highly unlikely. Vanda called the setback perplexing and said it plans to continue working to get jet lag disorder added to the Hetlioz label.

Investors in Impact Biosciences, which sold the selective JAK2 inhibitor to Celgene for $1.1bn up front, could double their money with milestone fees based on fedratinib's approval.

AbbVie now has both of its Humira successors approved in the US, following April’s Skyrizi approval for psoriasis. But Rinvoq faces stiff competition both within the JAK1 class and in rheumatoid arthritis generally.

The Phase III NEPTUNE lung cancer trial found the combination of Imfinzi and tremelimumab was no better than chemotherapy at extending overall survival. After repeat setbacks, AstraZeneca is now running out of opportunities to show its dual checkpoint blockade is effective in NSCLC.

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Although far from a one-product company, data in Q4 will be key to whether the brittle bone drug could become a blockbuster for the UK NASDAQ-listed biotech.