The potential of China’s vast health care products market is alluring. It has proved off-limits to most of the global medtech industry, and is rarely in the early launch strategies of global companies. Government-led initiatives want that to change, as evidenced in the latest Five-Year Plan and the recent Healthy China 2030 report.

Dmitry Kuzmin, managing partner, and Owen Smith, investment director, talk to In Vivo about 4BIO’s approach to venture investing in the biopharma sector: successes, red flags and targets for its second fund.

PureTech Health has amassed niche expertise and built a unique structure that allows it to develop technologies for unmet needs, in the separate but related areas of brain-immune-gut. And now, with the experienced ex-Sanofi CEO Chris Viehbacher as interim chair, PureTech can target a smooth path to its next growth stages in the “BIG Axis.” Senior executives Eric Elenko and Joep Muijrers reveal more about the focus and aims of the Boston, US group.

In case you missed it: catch up with snippets from interviews recently published by In Vivo.

The term artificial intelligence was coined at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project in 1956, but it is only in very recent years that it has been consistently at the top of the agenda in discussions on the future direction of health care. As a tool to improve both the quality and speed of care, AI is now increasingly seen as a realistic solution to the demand overload on clinicians. At the same time, techno-fears are abating. This confluence will transform health care radically in the next two decades.

Infographic: There are two CAR-T therapies on the market, both of which secured their first approvals in 2017. The pipeline of autologous and allogeneic CAR-T options is busy with several candidates in clinical studies. However, getting approval is only one part of getting these breakthrough therapies to patients.

An interactive look at recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostics industries.

In Vivo visits Gates Medical Research Institute CEO Dr. Penny Heaton to review its first pipeline of drugs and vaccines to attack four of the world’s biggest killers: TB, malaria, enteric diseases and other conditions affecting maternal, newborn and child health.

In an exclusive interview, Alexion R&D head John Orloff takes In Vivo on a tour around the company’s rejuvenated pipeline and explains how the business is innovating to pre-empt the Soliris-shaped hole in its balance sheet.

In case you missed it: catch up with snippets from interviews recently published by In Vivo.

Insights from Gates Medical Research Institute CEO Dr. Penny Heaton. 

Hearing direct from HTA agencies on what evidence they want to see is now an option through early dialogue. With many options for early dialogue available, it is hard for companies to know whether to get advice, from which agency and how to get the most out of the dialogue.

In 2019, Mylan moved up to become the world’s leading generics, biosimilars and OTC player, according to Informa Pharma Intelligence’s latest global rankings. Sandoz has surpassed troubled Teva into second place but is set to surrender that position following the sale of its US solid-dose and dermatology business to India’s Aurobindo.

Given the transformative nature of regenerative medicines, treatments yielding greatly improved patient responses that now exist as viable products on the market, cell and gene drug developers over the past several years have been drawing deal attention. Not only through collaborative partnerships, but also as acquisition targets.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Dealmaking column is a survey of recent health care transactions listed by relevant industry segment – In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals – and then categorized by type – Acquisition, Alliance, or Financing. This month’s column covers deals announced November 2019.