Cancer deals involving Junshi/Wigen, Allist/Octimet, Yufan/Abound, Takeda/Presage, Daiichi Sankyo/AnHeart, LegoChem/Harbour Biomed, plus a stem cell partnership and a lysosomal storage disorder agreement.

During the “Road to Commercialization” panel session during EBD/Informa Connect's recent annual ChinaBio partnering event, senior executives from top Chinese biotechs along with a leading contract manufacturing organization and venture fund shared views on biologics commercialization in China. Partnerships to accelerate the process, as well as the future commercial direction of novel biologics in their fastest-growing market worldwide, were also discussed.

New company licenses obicetrapib from Amgen after previous companies’ setbacks in CETP class and works with FDA on a Phase III protocol. BMS buys protein-engineering specialist Forbius.

Also, Osmotica licenses rights to ophthalmic drug in Japan, China and the EMEA nations to Santen; Lilly and Chi-Med revise their partnership around colorectal cancer drug Elunate.