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Moderna and Merck’s investigational personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by FDA.

Naoki Okamura, Astellas’ current chief strategy officer, will take over the role from Kenji Yasukawa.

The definitive agreement will give AstraZeneca global rights to CinCor’s portfolio of cardiorenal disease treatments.

Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, will pay Kelun-Biotech up to $9l3 billion for seven early-stage oncology treatments.

GSK and Wave Life Sciences have entered into a collaboration to drive drug discovery and development for novel genetic targets.

Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, an Irish biotechnology company, is one of the largest of 2022.

Results from Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer's treatment, lecanemab, indicated significantly slowed cognitive decline in patients relative to placebo.

AstraZeneca inked a deal worth up to $320 million to purchase Neogene Therapeutics, a biotech start-up focused on T-cell receptor therapies.

CSL’s Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec) will cost approximately $3.5 million, making it the most expensive single-use medicine in the United States.

Merck will purchase Imago BioSciences, a biotechnology company focused on bone marrow disorders, for approximately $1.35 billion.

The deal will see Sanofi use Insilico’s AI drug discovery platform to advance up to six new drug development candidates.

Johnson & Johnson’s acquisition of Abiomed, a provider of heart pump technologies, is designed to bolster their position in the medical technology sector.

Gilead and MacroGenics will work together on bispecific antibodies for the treatment of blood cancers.

Merck has exercised a $250 million option with Moderna to jointly develop and commercialize cancer vaccine mRNA-4157/V940.

FDA amended its authorization for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent booster vaccines to permit their use in children as young as five years old.

Biogen has agreed to pay $900 million to settle federal and state claims that it paid kickbacks to physicians to encourage them to prescribe its drugs.

Pfizer is set to supply global fund up to 6 million treatment courses of its COVID-19 oral treatment, PAXLOVID, for low-and-middle-income countries.

Novo Nordisk’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Forma Therapeutics is intended to expand its sickle cell and rare blood disorder portfolio.

FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 boosters.

The European Union publishes long-awaited changes to Annex 1.

Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech for allegedly infringing on patents the company filed from 2010 to 2016.

Anthony Fauci announced that he plans to step down as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December 2022.

The United Kingdom has approved Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, which targets the original variant and Omicron.

Pfizer’s $5.4 billion acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics is expected to strengthen its sickle cell disease portfolio.

WHO has determined that monkeypox constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

Royalty Pharma is paying $1.6 billion for the royalty rights to Trelegy Ellipta, a treatment for COPD and asthma.

FDA has granted an Emergency Use Authorization to Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The Sanofi-GSK vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial with a high-Omicron environment.

Novartis will endorse the Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases and invest $250 million for R&D.

GSK will invest £1 billion in furthering R&D in malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, as well as neglected tropical diseases.