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Saudi Arabia The latest pharmaceutical industry and healthcare news from the Middle East and Africa (MEA), including Eva Pharma’s rheumatoid arthritis deal with Eli Lilly; Avalon Pharmaceuticals’ global expansion ambitions; the agreement between Lifera and Novo Nordisk for Saudi insulin production;Kelix Bio’s four pharma acquisitions, and Aspen’s EUR 500 million financing package…

Germany The latest news from German pharma, including why Merck KGaA is looking to life science M&A; positive outlooks for Bayer and STADA; BioNTech’s move into the AI lab assistant space with Google DeepMind; and the recipe to fix the country’s ailing healthcare system.   Germany’s Merck open to more M&A…

China A roundup of some of the top stories coming out of China’s pharma industry, including AstraZeneca’s USD 1.92 billion deal with CSPC; Bayer’s new Shanghai incubator; Genentech’s purchase of Regor Pharmaceuticals’ breast cancer portfolio; Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical’s African manufacturing expansion, and CanSino’s USD 17 million polio vaccine grant from the…

LatAm An overview of some of the biggest news from Latin American pharma, including Onconic Therapeutics’ licensing deal with Laboratorios Sanfer for 19 LatAm countries; Lupin’s orphan drug partnership with Argentina’s Celnova Pharma; Grifols’ distribution deal with Gema Biotech; the downturn in Uruguay’s medicinal canibis industry, and Novartis’ increased clinical trial…

China A roundup of some of the biggest China pharma industry stories, including the progress of the US Biosecure Act targeting Chinese biotechs; Innovent’s obesity and type 2 diabetes contender’s positive phase III trial results; the strategic partnership between Sino Biological and BioGeometry; CSL’s sale of its China-based plasma collection operations…

APAC A run-through of some of the most striking recent stories from pharma in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, including Japan’s attempts to bring back Big Pharma investment; UCB’s decision to divest its China neurology and allergy business for USD 680 million; and Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Novartis investing in Singaporean manufacturing.  …

China A roundup of top stories from China’s pharma industry, including BeiGene’s new US R&D and manufacturing facility; Merck’s purchase of investigational B-cell depletion therapy from Curon Biopharma, and the Chinese approval of AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s gastric cancer therapy.   China’s BeiGene opens new clinical R&D and biologics manufacturing facility…

Spain Some of the biggest stories coming out of Spain’s pharma industry, including Brookfield’s bid for a troubled Grifols; Esteve’s Spanish plant expansion; Rovi’s offers for a potential buyout of its CDMO business, and the EUR 90 million earmarked by Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) to promote biomedical…

Japan A roundup of the most important stories coming out of Japan’s pharma industry, including the sharp increase in deaths linked to Kobayashi supplements; the partnership between Moderna and Mitsubishi Tanabe to jointly promote Moderna’s mRNA respiratory vaccine portfolio; the country’s move to to support domestic antibiotics production; Takeda’s licenscing agreement…

China A roundup of some of the biggest pharma industry news from China, including Fosun’s bid for Henlius Biotech; the revision of the US’s Biosecure Act to provide more time for cutting ties with China; Baili Tianheng’s second Hong Kong listing; Hasten’s acquisition of asset rights for 14  products from Celltrion,…

Italy Some of the biggest pharma and healthcare stories coming out of Italy, including Italy’s antitrust investigation of Novartis and Genentech; Johnson & Johnson’s EUR 125 million investment in its Italian manufacturing site; Chiesi Farmaceutici’s licensing agreement with Gossamer Bio for a pulmonary hypertension drug, and Menarini and Insilico’s oncology partnership.…

Canada The biggest stories coming out of Canadian pharma and healthcare, including AstraZeneca’s acquistion of Canadian biotech Fusion Pharmaceuticals; Valeo Pharma’s new senior executive and board of directors, and generics maker Apotex’s bid for Searchlight Pharma.   Canada, UK launched joint probe into 23andMe data breach, says Canada (Reuters) The Canadian and…