Plus deals involving Abbisko/Merck & Co., Astellas/Phenomic AI, PRISM Biolab/Lilly and WuXi Biologics/Myricx.

Confidence in growing in-house commercial capabilities has recently prompted several Chinese pharmas, including Simcere and 3SBio, to focus on obtaining domestic rights to novel drug assets developed by other China-based biotechs, rather than pursuing international deals.

Watch out Sanofi. US- and China-based Connect BioPharma is looking to position its novel biologic for atopic dermatitis to compete head-on with best-selling Dupixent both inside and outside China in an increasingly crowded space, says co-founder and CEO Wei Zheng in an exclusive interview with Scrip.

Pharma will partner with SyntheX on targeted protein degradation, with Autolus on cell therapy safety. Novo Nordisk gets rights to Ventus’s lead compound in NASH and chronic kidney disease.