Commissioner Chopra says candy maker Nestlé cannot take Allergan’s place in the market and AstraZeneca would get a windfall without paying anything for a valuable drug development project. AbbVie/Allergan must divest enzyme replacement therapies Zenpap and Viokace to Nestlé and investigational IL-23 inhibitor brazikumab to AstraZeneca. 

The New York biotech announces option deals with two universities, asset license from CBM BioPharma. Bayer inks research collaborations with Japan’s RiKen and with a pair of Boston research hospitals.

A Milbank Quarterly study and a Pink Sheet analysis show that disagreement between the US FDA and its advisory committee meetings doesn't happen often; it is even rarer for the agency to approve a drug against the advice from a panel.

Oxford Biomedica is teaming with Santen to develop a gene therapy for an undisclosed eye disease. Shionogi inks a pair of partnerships for Chinese rights to lusutrombopag and epertinib.