China Stopped Excluding Patented Drugs From Its Price Cuts. Now the Bidder Signs for the Risk.

China Stopped Excluding Patented Drugs From Its Price Cuts. Now the Bidder Signs for the Risk.

Eight patent-sensitive molecules were admitted to China’s price-cutting round on one condition: the bidder signs an intellectual property undertaking and carries the risk.

LifeScience Weekly Digest: Key Industry Updates (13th – 17th January) 

JP Morgan Week featured notable developments in drugs, devices, diagnostics, and digital health. Johnson & Johnson paid $14.6 billion for Intra-Cellular Therapies, bolstering its neuroscience portfolio with CAPLYTA® and a strong mental health pipeline. Eli Lilly invested $2.5 billion in Scorpion Therapeutics’ PI3Kα inhibitor for hormone-positive breast cancer, while Bausch + Lomb expanded ophthalmology with … Read more