Licensing deals and partnerships carried the day during another hectic J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Pfizer racked up its third deal of the week in a cancer collaboration with Dren Bio.

Meeting all primary and secondary endpoints in a pair of pivotal trials, Brickell says sofpironium bromide gel will be ready for FDA filing in mid-2022. The topical is already approved in Japan as Ecclock.

Public Company Edition: Three $100m-plus US initial public offerings launched on 15 July after two smaller biopharma IPOs earlier in the month. Also, Gelesis announced a SPAC merger, Brii and Amniotics launched ex-US IPOs, and Intellia, Cerevel and Kymera priced large follow-on offerings. 

Plus deals involving Y-Biologics/Pierre Fabre, Contera/Abzu, Chugai/Alebund, Catalyst/DyDo, Spergogenix/Abbiska, Nippon Gene/ERS Genomics, Simcere/Vivoryon, Dr. Reddy’s/Journey Medical and Innovent/Synaffix.