The drug maker is spending $250m to acquire privately held Celsius and its lead candidate, a monoclonal antibody targeting TREM1 in inflammatory bowel disease.

Public Company Edition: Insmed grossed $650m, Structure raised $476m and Merus brought in $400.2m after positive clinical trial results. But while CARGO raised $110m in a private placement and Day One sold a priority review voucher for $108m, Ikena, Takeda and others cut jobs.

Restructuring Edition: The industry emerged from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference feeling renewed confidence about deal-making and financing, but drug developers continue to run short on cash or cut programs and jobs before the money runs out, including Cara, PMV and Ikena.

Plus deals involving Lipocine/Verity, Vivtex/AI Proteins, Windtree/Lee’s Pharmaceutical, Biogen/Ji Xing, Sermonix/Henlius and news from the world of technology transfer.