Novel antifungal T-2307, discovered by FUJIFILM Toyama, works by selectively disrupting mitochondrial function. Excelra and Maruho team up to repurpose existing drugs.

Tender deadline for Roche acquisition of Spark pushed back to 30 October; 21.4% of Spark shares tendered so far. Vertex further diversifies with fourth deal of 2019 – an RNA-targeted collaboration with Ribometrix.

The JV to be called JAGUAHR Therapeutics will focus on the AhR pathway. Simcere acquires Chinese rights to JW’s gout candidate.

RiKen gets $9.3m up front plus potential milestones and royalties for use of its aAVC technology, while retaining research rights to the platform. JW Pharmaceutical acquires Vietnam’s Euvipharm.