Kyowa, the Japanese arm of Indian major Lupin, is buying a basket of mature products including CNS drugs Rhythmy and Resmit from Shionogi. As innovator companies seek to shed older products in Japan, generic firms, especially Indian ones, are taking advantage to expand in the world's second largest pharmaceutical market.

Astellas inks agreement with Dyno Therapeutics for access to its CapsidMap platform for novel AAV vectors. Taiho takes option to Arcus TIGIT-targeted antibody candidates.

To ensure the Beijing Winter Olympics is a smooth affair, the Chinese government has ordered partial or complete halts in industrial production in some provinces from late November until mid-March, disrupting an already fragile global pharma active ingredient supply chain. The emergence of the Omicron coronavirus variant is just adding to the complexities.