F-star's novel bispecific technology attracts Sino Biopharma-affiliated acquisition, Shionogi agreement with GARDP brings antibiotic cefiderocol to 135 countries, deal with WinHealth covering Greater China expands Quoin’s licensing of Netherton syndrome candidate to 60 nations, Kyorin and CellGenTech team up in Fabry disease.

The jury said the infringement, which involved patents on two-channel sequencing chemistry technology, had been “willful” and turned down Illumina’s counterclaims. 

BGI, and its subsidiary MGI, can’t sell the infringing products in the US until after Illumina’s patents expire.

At a time when the sector has fallen out of favor with venture capitalists and public markets, Irish biotech Priothera is accessing funds from the EU to advance a Phase IIb/III study of mocravimod for acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants.