At Novartis’s first R&D day since he took the helm, new CEO Vas Narasimhan told Scrip about how the company plans to build value through its newly acquired breakthrough technologies and what deals it is looking for next.

Thwarted by the FDA, Novartis sees better opportunities for other biosimilars in its portfolio and has decided not to pursue a refiling for its version of Roche's blockbuster Rituxan. However CEO Vas Narasimhan told Scrip that the US remains very much a focus of the group's biosimilars strategy.

Plasmapheresis with Grifols’ Albutein could provide a new treatment avenue for Alzheimer’s disease, but more data will be needed to convince.

The first Phase III study for Lundbeck’s novel antipsychotic flops leaving the Danish company shares down by 25% as investors wonder what’s left in the pipeline.

Merck & Co.’s IO powerhouse Keytruda has trumped Bavencio’s recent Inlyta combo PFS win in kidney cancer, with a OS and PFS combo hit of its own. But the field is getting increasingly crowded. 

On the brink of an expanded US approval for asthma, Sanofi/Regeneron’s interleukin-4 receptor blocker Dupixent has produced positive topline Phase III data in a lucrative third indication, rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.