Public Company Financings: Theravance sold its 85% interest in Trelegy royalties from GSK and Innoviva sold its 15% interest for up to $1.8bn in total. Also, ProKidney grossed $597m from its SPAC merger, Pliant raised $200m in a post-Phase IIa offering and Marinus earned $110m in a PRV sale.

Eli Lilly has asked the European Medicines Agency to grant accelerated assessment to its planned EU marketing application for pirtobrutinib. Meanwhile, the agency has rejected requests to fast-track SIFI’s Akantior and Janssen’s Zejula plus Zytiga combination therapy. 

Marinus’s ganaxolone has lost its accelerated assessment status mid-review at the European Medicines Agency while Roche’s glofitamab will be fast-tracked once a filing has been made.

The company will launch Ztalmy for an ultra-rare pediatric seizure disorder but hopes to expand to larger indications in the future. CEO Scott Braunstein talks to Scrip about the launch.