Plus deals involving Zai Lab/MacroGenics, Ono/Rafael Pharmaceuticals, Beijing Podconley/Norgine, Nuance/Verona and BeiGene/Shoreline.

Sawai is lining up eight launches as part of the Japanese company’s strategy to capture an increased share of its domestic generics market.

Japan’s Sawai has laid out its mid- and long-term ambitions in a new company business plan, spanning both its local and overseas operations.

The European Medicines Agency has extended the time that Comirnaty can spend in a fridge after defrosting and could this week issue advice to member states on sotrovimab for use in COVID-19 patients. Norway’s BerGenBio has published top-line data from a Phase II trial of of bemcentinib, and IcanoMAB has outlined the potential of its anti-IL-1R7 antibody.