Revolution has just one drug in the clinic, but its focus on KRAS excited IPO investors. Also, Deciphera’s $175m offering leads recent follow-ons and Spruce raises $88m in venture capital.

Previewing the year to come, our journalists contacted more than 80 industry executives and experts for their views on what 2020 could hold for the biopharma sector. A series of articles based on these discussions were published by In Vivo’s sister publication Scrip. The following are highlights of the key issues that are top of mind for industry leaders this year, including digital tools, advanced therapies, the US election and manufacturing.

Advances in multiple scientific areas will mature into novel therapeutics, often tailored for the individual patient and increasingly curative, making biopharma an exciting place to be in 2020.

Deal with Pfizer makes for Theravance’s third large pharma partnership since 2016. AbbVie off-loads Marinol to India’s Alkem, Bausch licenses candidate for rare form of dry eye disease from Novaliq.