Roche’s Foundation Medicine still leads Guardant Health in terms of total companion-diagnostic US FDA approvals as both companies announced new PMA supplements.

Helsinn’s strategic collaboration with BridgeBio Pharma to co-develop and commercialise candidate FGFR1-3 inhibitor infigratinib in oncology will give the Swiss family-owned company its first targeted cancer therapeutic for the US market, its CEO tells Scrip.

Private Company Edition: TVM, Focus/MD Anderson and RA Capital launched new venture capital funds. Also, LianBio’s $310m crossover financing, AavantiBio’s Sarepta-backed $107m series A and Sirnaomics’ $105m series D led recent VC rounds. 

Headquartered in both China and US, the new firm will help partners bring drugs to China and other Asian markets. Novavax licenses COVID-19 vaccine in Japan to Takeda, following previous week’s deal for the vaccine in India.