EU marketing authorization applications have been submitted for a number of new drugs, including Eli Lilly’s donanemab, Italfarmaco's givinostat and Arcturus Therapeutics/CSL’s ARCT-154.

Gilead aims to launch its key oncology product Trodelvy by 2024 in Japan while building a dedicated business unit for oncology in the firm’s Japanese office. The firm has expanded its exclusive rights for oncology products in APAC.

Hopes are rising that Johnson & Johnson will be able to emulate AbbVie’s success in delaying US biosimilar competition to its top-selling Humira by using a similar settlement strategy with its anti-IL12/IL23 blockbuster Stelara.

In Trop2 Merck & Co. might have got itself an ADC at least as good as Gilead and Astra/Daiichi’s leaders, for a fraction of the price.