Deal Watch: Allergan, Regeneron Both Look To Hydrogel Tech
Executive Summary
Most of the significant deal-making action during the past week took place in Asia as Piramal made a play to increase its injectables business, an Eisai affiliate out-licensed rights to ovarian cancer candidate farletuzumab, and EpimAb and Kymab agreed to collaborate on bispecific antibody therapeutics.
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