Chinese firm RareStone licenses Rhythm’s Imcivree in greater China and will help enroll label-expansion studies for the drug. Omeros sells ophthalmic surgery drug Omidria and its commercial team to Rayner Surgical Group.

Appili brings in AiPharma to help with US/Canadian development of Fujifilm’s potential COVID-19 preventative/therapeutic. Other recent tie-ups include CinFina/Janssen, Bone/Impant, Bayer/Gubra, Novartis/Theragnostics, Grifols/Biotest and more.

Miguel Forte, Bone Therapeutics CEO, has told Scrip that another approach from French company Hybrigenics about a merger came as a surprise, adding that his priority is the expansion of the Belgian biotech's allogenic cell therapy platform after the recent failure of its Phase III asset for knee osteoarthritis pain.

The company said the study of JTA-004 failed to meet its primary and key secondary endpoints, though a post-hoc analysis indicated activity in a patient subset.