Priya Singhal, head of development, spoke with Scrip about the company’s R&D restructuring, readouts coming from the culled pipeline and how Biogen is thinking about adding to it in the future.

Plus deals involving Abliva/Owl, Selecta/Cartesian, Novo Nordisk/Genevant, AbbVie/Aldeyra and more.

New head of research Jane Grogan comes to Biogen from start-ups Graphite Bio and ArsenalBio, and previously held leadership positions in autoimmune and oncology R&D at Genentech.

With cash preservation in mind, Rubius will dissolve, while EQRx, Impel, Cybin and Graphite cut jobs. Meanwhile, Jounce is restructuring and it plans to merge with Redx, yet the dually troubled firms MEI Pharma and Infinity will combine, while VBL will disappear in a reverse merger with Notable Labs.