Market Snapshot: Acute myeloid leukemia is a serious condition that affects people mainly in late middle age, for which there is a large R&D pipeline of candidate products being researched by pharmaceutical and biotech companies, many of whom are using a targeted medicine approach.

A 2008 law that limited exclusivity for certain antibiotics to three years does not apply to Allergan’s Avycaz, which combines an approved old antibiotic active moiety and a new active moiety, CDER exclusivity board concludes.

Private Company Edition: Dyno’s first VC round will enable more deals for its novel AAV platform; Eikon pioneers new drug discovery technology. Also, Treeline’s early funding revealed at $211.7m; Capsida raised $140m from a VC round, AbbVie deal; and Affinia closed a $110m series B round. 

Legislation that could thin the crowded generic market clears first parliamentary hurdle as brand and generic firms alike react to the recent generic quality issue raised by recent manufacturing incidences at some South Korean pharma firms.