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Deal Watch: Pfizer Licenses Skin-Targeted JAK Inhibitor Portfolio From Theravance

 
• By Joseph Haas, Ian Haydock, Anju Ghangurde, and Vibha Ravi

Deal with Pfizer makes for Theravance’s third large pharma partnership since 2016. AbbVie off-loads Marinol to India’s Alkem, Bausch licenses candidate for rare form of dry eye disease from Novaliq.

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Scrip regularly covers business development and deal-making in the biopharmaceutical industry. Deal Watch is supported by deal intelligence from Strategic Transactions.

Pfizer Inc. added to its Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor inventory and potentially increased its focus on dermatology in a licensing deal unveiled on 23 December with the Irish subsidiary of Theravance Biopharma Inc

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