The weak yen helped push up both global revenues and costs for major Japanese firms in the fiscal year ended 31 March, while good mainstay growth benefited Daiichi Sankyo and Astellas. Chugai meanwhile had a challenging start to its calendar financial year due to lower pandemic drug stockpiling.

BMS partners with Repertoire and Scenic, plus deals involving: G1/Pepper, Harmony/Epygenix, Biodexa/Emtora, Regeneron/Mammoth, Vertex/Treefrog and Immedica/KKR/Impilo.

Astellas is building off an existing relationship with the biotech formed last August, joining the growing number of large pharmas looking at tackling solid tumors with cell therapy.

Teva and Alvotech have confirmed deductions that it is their recently-approved 100mg/ml adalimumab biosimilar that will be used by Cigna’s Evernorth as part of a recently announced private-label deal involving Evernorth’s Quallent Pharmaceuticals.