TORONTO – Virtual reality (VR) platform developer Realize Medical Inc. is collaborating with Lausanne, Switzerland’s Logitech International SA on what the Ottawa-based med tech calls “the world’s first VR platform for creating patient-specific 3D medical models.”
HONG KONG – Huya Bioscience International LLC, which has a special interest in China-developed assets, has obtained an exclusive global license, bar China, for the SHP2 inhibitor HBI-2376 from Suzhou-based Genhouse Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Tango Therapeutics Inc. CEO Barbara Weber told BioWorld that Gilead Sciences Inc.’s decision to greatly expand their 2018 deal in oncology – a pact then valued as high as $1.7 billion – was based on brisker than expected progress in the original, five-target effort.
HONG KONG – China’s Arctic Vision (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has entered an exclusive deal with New York’s Eyenovia Inc. to develop and commercialize ophthalmic formulations that are delivered using the latter’s first-in-class microdosing spray technology. Under the deal, Arctic Vision will commercialize Eyenovia’s Micropine and Microline formulations in Greater China and South Korea in exchange for $45.75 million in upfront payments and additional milestone and royalty payments.
Sanofi SA is acquiring Principia Biopharma Inc. in a $3.68 billion deal that brings Sanofi three clinical-stage BTK inhibitors and simplifies a partnership that began three years ago. Paris-based Sanofi plans to acquire all outstanding Principia common stock shares for $100 each at a $3.36 billion enterprise value. Sanofi will get SAR-442168 (PRN-2246), the brain-penetrant candidate at the heart of the deal. The agreement now gives Sanofi full control of the program, bringing a three-year partnership between the two companies to an end
PARIS – Integragen SA and OncoDNA SA have signed a tender offer agreement anticipating a takeover bid. Gosselies, Belgium-based OncoDNA will purchase 100% of the shares of Integragen, floated on the Euronext Paris Euronext Growth Markets, at a unit price of $2.60, valuing the latter’s share capital at $17.2 million.
TORONTO – The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) has accepted documentation supporting a binding letter of intent between Toronto-based Therma Bright Inc. and arm's-length vendor Orpheus Medica Inc. for development of a rapid saliva, COVID-19 test.
It was one of the largest med-tech deals of the year. However, Qiagen NV shareholders were apparently not satisfied by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.’s offer, with the voluntary public takeover bid not achieving the minimum 66.67% acceptance threshold. A total of 47% of the outstanding Qiagen shares were tendered into the offer of €43 (US$50.95) at the expiration of the acceptance period Aug. 10.
HONG KONG – China’s Arctic Vision Biotechnology Co. Ltd. has entered into an exclusive deal with New York-based Eyenovia Inc. to develop and commercialize ophthalmic formulations that are delivered using the latter’s first-in-class microdosing spray technology.