Aileron Therapeutics Acquires Lung Therapeutics
Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. has announced its acquisition of Lung Therapeutics. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lung Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for underserved, life-threatening lung conditions. The Lung Therapeutics pipeline features leading programs LTI-01 and LTI-03, two candidates that indicate a novel way to treat lung diseases. Aileron Therapeutics is a chemoprotection oncology company focused on the clinical development of its lead product candidate, ALRN-6924, to protect cancer patients against chemotherapy-induced toxicities. Following the acquisition, Aileron entered into a definitive... Read More »
Roche Acquires Telavant for $7.1 Billion
Roche Holding AG announced on October 23 that it will acquire Telavant Holdings from its majority owner, Roivant Sciences. Under the terms of the agreement, Roche will pay a purchase price of $7.1 billion upfront and a near-term milestone payment of $150 million. Telavant is a biotechnology company that produces drugs to treat inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. It is in the process of developing a new therapy for patients with Crohn’s disease. Telavant was jointly formed by Roivant and Pfizer, Inc. in 2022 to develop and commercialize RVT-3101, a monthly subcutaneously administered anti-TL1A antibody, in the United States and Japan. Roivant currently owns 75% of the issued and... Read More »
Eli Lilly Acquires POINT Biopharma Global For $1.4 Billion
Eli Lilly and Company announced on October 2 that it acquired POINT Biopharma Global, Inc. for approximately $1.4 billion. Lilly will commence a tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of POINT for a purchase price of $12.50 per share in cash payable at closing. The price represents a premium of approximately 87% to POINT’s closing stock price on Oct. 2, 2023, the last trading day before the announcement of the transaction was made, and 68% to the 30-day volume-weighted average price. POINT Biopharma Global is a globally focused radiopharmaceutical company building a platform for the clinical development and commercialization of radioligands that fight... Read More »
SOHM Acquires ABBIE
On September 25, SOHM, Inc. announced that it acquired ABBIE from CGA 369 for $10 million. ABBIE is a gene-editing platform which can deliver genetic payloads using non-viral vectors. ABBIE uses targeted integration to insert larger DNA sequences, including full genes, into a desired loci of the target cell’s genome. ABBIE will be able to edit genes of a large number of cell types at different stages of their life cycles, overcoming the limitations of current cell editing and cell engineering technologies. SOHM, is a generic pharmaceutical manufacturing and marketing company with a vision of “Globalè Prospèro” that tries to build continuous growth. SOHM’s... Read More »
