The world's largest biotech company Amgen Inc. aims to triple sales from emerging markets in five years through potential acquisitions and licensing back rights to current products, the company said during an April 21 business review meeting. Amgen's recent purchase of privately held Bergamo of Brazil for roughly $215 million, and its reacquisition of Brazilian rights to certain Amgen products from Mantecorp, indicate more such deals are on the way, analysts say

MUMBAI - Merck & Co. is establishing a joint venture with India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. for a broad-based alliance to develop, manufacture and commercialize novel combinations and "incrementally innovative" branded generics in emerging markets, the two companies announced April 11

One effect of Brexit is that the UK’s National Institute for Biological Standards and Control will have additional responsibilities from next year in terms of the independent batch testing and release of products such as vaccines and medicines derived from human blood and plasma in Great Britain.