Totals for aggregate deals and in the M&A, alliance and divestment categories were similar among the 10 busiest deal makers from 2020 to 2021, but COVID-19 may have driven a more hectic deal-making pace overall in 2020.

The deal bolsters Sanofi’s immuno-oncology pipeline and marks its sixth acquisition this year.

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.

Cell, gene and RNA therapies are starting to transform the healthcare landscape and a report from the American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy and Informa Pharma Intelligence maps the progress the sector made in the first quarter of 2021.