Blackstone is providing $250m to combine Intellia’s gene editing and Cellex’s cell manufacturing capabilities in a new CAR-T company using Cellex subsidiary GEMoaB’s technology and pipeline as a foundation.

Arrowhead and Horizon Therapeutics have inked a deal to develop an investigational RNA interference therapy for uncontrolled gout, under which Arrowhead stands to get $40m upfront and up to $660m in milestones.

ViiV Healthcare’s head of R&D tells Scrip that extending the durations of its long acting HIV treatments is possible using drug delivery technology from Halozyme Therapeutics to expand the body’s capacity to absorb injected medicines.

In this week's podcast edition of Scrip's Five Must-Know Things: new developments in the TIGIT field; doctor frustration over Aduhelm guidance; are pediatric COVID vaccines necessary: the battle of the SERDs; and one Indian firm’s plans for lung disease leadership.

The US firm gets development and co-commercial rights to MORAb-202 for $650m up front. BMS joins AstraZeneca, Merck & Co. and Gilead in recent ADC deal-making.

The recently concluded BIO annual meeting included several sessions focused on the practice of business development. In this extra edition of our BIO 2021 notebook, Scrip collected observations about best practices for partnerships.

Lupin’s plans for a US generic to GSK’s Advair Diskus have turned awry as its contract with Celon Pharma is close to being terminated. The company has focused on other respiratory drugs like generic ProAir and Fostair even as the revenue potential for Advair has been shrinking post Mylan’s launch.

PharmaVentures’ Adrian Dawkes talks about how COVID-19 will impact pharma deals going forward and how Korean firms in particular may be able to grab opportunities in the global arena. 

In the latest sign that some multinationals are scaling down operations in the world's second-largest pharma market, Mundipharma is reported to be exploring the sale of its business in China, with a large group of bidders including state-owned Sinopharm and local private equity firm Boyu Capital in the running.