Spain now enjoys a reasonable level of venture capital to help translate its scientific excellence into budding biotechs and the country's major life sciences backer Ysios is looking to unearth more jewels there, as well as in the rest of Europe and North America.

Plus deals involving BioAtla/BeiGene, OliX/Thea, Chugai/Argenx, Shionogi/HanaVax, TaiGen/Luminairie, Novartis/1Yao.com, Sperogenix/Minoryx, Quantum/Orient EuroPharma and AtomWise/GC Pharma.

Post-COVID, a consumer’s home as point of care has led to greater acceptance for health gadgets while shifting preferences away from injectables, shows a new study, which has pointers for pharma strategy. With anxiety over the pandemic continuing, mental telehealth solutions are ripe for the picking.

With landmark advisory committee meetings coming up, we take a look back at some of the memorable panel meetings over the last 20 years. This is Part II in the series.