Plus deals involving BioLineRx/GloriaBio, Healios/Athersys, Aurobindo/Hilleman, Lupin/Menarini, GC Biopharma/Immetas, CanariaBio, Specialised Therapeutics, TaiGen/Y.S.P., Nippon/Kayaku/Adlai Nortye, WuXi/PharmaEssentia, Evommune/Maruho and Ono/Adimab.

Japanese regulatory authorities have announced a set of additional reimbursement price cuts for selected products in August, under which Novartis’s heart failure drug Entresto will see its price slashed by 15%. A batch of other newly approved drugs has also been priced.

Public Company Edition: With the XBI up more than 9% in April, a few follow-on offerings –$23m to support Gamida Cell’s small product launch and $500m to fund Vaxcyte’s large clinical trial program – have made it to market. Also, China’s CytoMed launched the sixth biopharma IPO in the US this year.

A recent survey showed healthcare as among the sectors US companies were most concerned about amid the ongoing China-US tensions over Taiwan. But how do biotech firms on the island itself view the current situation? We spoke to the president of one amid Taiwan’s imminent reopening.