Gland Pharma, controlled by Chinese group Fosun, makes shining debut on Indian stock markets despite a lukewarm response to its IPO. Will the buoyant market sentiment sustain amid edgy India-China relations?

After an eventful year for the off-patent industry, the world’s leading generics and biosimilars players have switched places in Generics Bulletin’s newly compiled global sales ranking.

CureVac seals EU Deal for 405 million doses of CVnCoV, a second Phase III trial for J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine starts, and BioNTech, Fosun get OK for China vaccine trial.

Private Company Edition: The flood of venture capital into health care and life science firms continues with Perceptive closing a $1.1bn credit fund and Sanofi investing $50m in Jeito Capital. Also, Ambrx closed a $200m crossover round as biopharma remains on track for a record funding year.