Lilly licenses non-opioid pain candidate from Centrexion. China’s Hansoh gets rights to inibelizumab from AstraZeneca spinout Viela for lead indication neuromyelitis optica as well as other autoimmune and blood cancer indications.

Amgen offered to buy its Scandinavian discovery partner for $166.8m to gain access to Nuevolution’s DNA-encoded drug discovery platform and nascent pipeline.

The Spanish derma specialist has agreed a research collaboration that could yield novel therapies for diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.

Escalier Biosciences will use recently raised cash, from an investment round led by Forbion Capital Partners, to progress oral and topical psoriasis therapies into the clinic.