Merck & Co leads a market expected to exceed $10bn by 2028, but others are aiming to muscle in.

Plus deals involving Avalo/AlmataBio, AbbVie/Parvus, NovaBay/Eyenovia, Bayer/Aignostics, Merck & Co./Pearl, tech transfer agreements and deals in brief.

Supporting ‘n of 1’ gene therapy development, the playbook from a Foundation for the National Institutes of Health-backed consortium aims to help investigators who are not traditional product sponsors prepare for meetings with US FDA and IND submissions.

More than 75 industry executives and experts gazed into the crystal ball and shared with Scrip their predictions around transformative technologies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, AI was the dominant theme – but gene editing, cell therapies and new targeting modalities were also among the highlights.