Despite legacy cancer drug sales still being hurt by biosimilars, Roche at the half-year mark is expected to give another good overall performance and underscore its growing product diversity and an increasing interest in rare diseases.

Hopes that the Phase II TAURIEL trial could potentially validate the anti-tau antibody approach to treating Alzheimer's have been dashed as semorinemab did not meet its endpoints.

Editas regains rights to ocular programs first partnered with Allergan in 2017. Newly public F-star will focus on bispecific antibodies for cancer, TriSalus acquires oncology candidate from Dynavax.